Common HEP UNIX USer Environment - Templates


Many templates are provided for the user. Examples:

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
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csh            always                .cshrc
               login                 .login
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tcsh           always                .tcshrc or 
                                     .cshrc 
               login                 .login 
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ksh            login                 .profile 
               interactive           .kshrc 
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zsh            always                .zshenv            
               login                 .zprofile and .zlogin 
               interactive           .zshrc 
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bash           login                 .base_profile or
                                     .profile 
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Arnaud Taddei, 27-Jun-1996