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Sun and said:
This depends on your shell. Check your man page if you're using something other than bash. bash (the standard shell on Linux) sources ~-.bashprofile when you log in via a console. Generally, .bashprofile checks to see if ~-.bashrc exists and then sources .bashrc . .bashrc is also sourced when you log in via a non-login shell. Generally, you want to put all your startup stuff in .bashrc, so it's always available.
Keep in mind that sourcing .bashrc should *never* generate any output if the shell is non-interactive, or scp will break. You often see things like this:
if $- != *i* ; then # Shell is non-interactive. Be done now! return fi
...at the top of .bashrc . You often set environment variables, aliases, and whatever shell functions you need within .bashrc as well. For insane amounts of detail, "man bash".
NOTE: Doing this in a GUI is different. In KDE, you put scripts (or symlinks) in ~-.kde-Autostartso they'll be automatically executed whenever you log in to KDE. GNOME has something similar somewhere. HTH,
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