Re: [Fish-users] .profile for fish?

[David A. <za...@uc...>]

On Mon, 20 May 2013, John Chludzinski wrote:
> I assume that ~/.config/fish/config.fish is the equivalent of a
> .profile for Bourne shell derivatives?
> 
> I assume there is no fish analog to .bashrc files?

You are in a twisty maze of initialisation files, all alike...

To recap:

- .profile (.zprofile in zsh) is read for login shells
- .bashrc (.zshrc) is read for interactive shells
- .zshenv in zsh is executed for all shells regardless
 (in bash there is no clear analogue)

config.fish is much more like .zshenv - it is run for every shell 
regardless of interactivity or login status.

However, you can execute commands selectively, like .profile or .bashrc, 
by testing for the interactive or login status:

--8<----

# config.fish
# for all shells
set -x STARTTIME (date)

if status --login
  # .profile or .zprofile commands
  keychain
end

if status --interactive
  # .bashrc or .zshrc commands
  stty -ixoff
end

--8<----

Hope that helps.

David Adam
za...@uc...