BeginEveryBashScript

Begin every Bash script

This page was last updated on April 03, 2010.

Make this the first line of every Bash script:

#!/bin/bash

Or make this the first line of every Bash script when you’d like to avoid the default behavior of having Bash read /etc/profile (the system-wide startup file) or ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile (any of the personal initialization files):

#!/bin/bash --noprofile

Obligatory Happy Ending

And they all lived happily ever after. The end.

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I would say something like this is better if you’re writing just a shell script:

#!/bin/bash –noprofile

You don’t need all the overhead of processing the startup scripts just to fork a process that already has a PATH, HOME, etc.

Comment by Jerry — April 3, 2010 @ 2:22 pm

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- Good point! I’m adding it now.
  
  Comment by mostlylinux — April 3, 2010 @ 8:36 pm
  
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