These templates consist of 3 parts:
The document 170, 171, 172 and 175 are short documents which explain some issues with the setting of the PATH (document 170), the setting of options for zsh (document 175), where you can run commands which produce an output on the terminal (document 171 for zsh and 172 for tcsh).
The following table provides the names of the configuration files you can use according to your shell
Standard users dot-files.
Shell Conditions Executed dot files -------------------------------------------------------------- csh always .cshrc login .login -------------------------------------------------------------- tcsh always .tcshrc or .cshrc login .login -------------------------------------------------------------- ksh login .profile interactive .kshrc -------------------------------------------------------------- zsh always .zshenv login .zprofile and .zlogin interactive .zshrc -------------------------------------------------------------- bash login .base_profile or .profile --------------------------------------------------------------