[ILUG] Editing .bashrc

[Timothy Murphy]

On Thursday 15 April 2004 15:12, Kevin O' Riordan wrote:

> If '/usr/local/bin/j2sdkee1.3.1/bin:' appears multiple times in your
> path, I can only guess that it's added multiple times during login -
> check your .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, /etc/profile ... it's got
> to be in one of those.

Isn't .bashrc normally read several times?
I've never been clear what should go in .bashrc
and what in .bash_profile.
I've always assumed the latter was read only once,
but I could easily be wrong.

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