Getting started with Bash Using "trap" to react to signals and system events Listing Files Aliasing Jobs and Processes Redirection Control Structures Using cat Arrays Functions Bash Parameter Expansion Sourcing Find Here documents and here strings Quoting Conditional Expressions Scripting with Parameters Bash history substitutions Math Scoping Process substitution Programmable completion Customizing PS1 Brace Expansion Bash Arithmetic getopts : smart positional-parameter parsing Debugging Pitfalls Script shebang Pattern matching and regular expressions Keyboard shortcuts Change shell Copying (cp)Internal variables Job Control Case statement Word splitting Read a file (data stream, variable) line-by-line (and/or field-by-field)?File Transfer using scp Pipelines Managing PATH environment variable Avoiding date using printf Chain of commands and operations Type of Shells true, false and : commands Color script output (cross-platform)Navigating directories Using sort Namespace co-processes Typing variables Jobs at specific times Associative arrays Handling the system prompt Creating directories File execution sequence The cut command Bash on Windows 10 Cut Command Splitting Files global and local variables Design Patterns CGI Scripts Select keyword When to use eval Networking With Bash Parallel Grep strace Sleep utility Decoding URL

File execution sequence

Remarks:

Other files of note are:

/etc/profile, for system-wide (not user specific) initialization code.
.bash_logout, triggered when logging out (think cleanup stuff)
.inputrc, similar to .bashrc but for readline.

.profile vs .bash_profile (and .bash_login)

.profile is read by most shells on startup, including bash. However, .bash_profile is used for configurations specific to bash. For general initialization code, put it in .profile. If it's specific to bash, use .bash_profile.

.profile isn't actually designed for bash specifically, .bash_profile is though instead. (.profile is for Bourne and other similar shells, which bash is based off) Bash will fall back to .profile if .bash_profile isn't found.

.bash_login is a fallback for .bash_profile, if it isn't found. Generally best to use .bash_profile or .profile instead.

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