> Personally, I think this would be a nice improvement, though it does
> lead to the question "how do you set $XDG_CONFIG_HOME before you read
> bashrc, where environment variables are typically defined".
I was thinking about it the other day. I think defining XDG_CONFIG_HOME and
XDG_DATA_HOME in
On 6/2/21 6:46 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
The earliest available snapshot in bash's git repo is
bash-1.14.7.tar.gz, at which point ~/.bashrc was already used. This is
in 1994. Someone else might know if it was in use between 1989 and 1994.
The current startup file scheme has been in place since t
On 6/2/21 6:06 PM, jonasxavier wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I would like to know why bash does not follow FHS 3.0 (Filesystem
> Hierarchy Standard) suggestions. FHS 3.0 says
>
> "... 3.8.2. Requirements ... If an application needs to create more
> than one dot filethen they should be placed in a subdirectory
