I’m trying to understand something and my searches are turning up no useful results.
Basically I brought over a bunch of bash stuff from my previous Fedora installation. In Fedora my bash_profile was used and so anything in ~.bash_functions folder where available as commands when I launched a terminal. But in Endeavour I discovered this doesn’t work. I just figured out I need to run ‘bash -l’ and then all my bash functions are sourced and added as available commands. But this bugs me because now I need to remember to run bash -l every time I open a terminal. Granted this is minor but I’d like to know what the advantage of starting a non logged in terminal is and how I can make bash -l the default mode that a terminal open in. Unless there is some good reason not to do this.
Keen to hear your thoughts. I’m sure this is a matter of opinion but mostly I’m genuinely interested in learning the pros and cons and how to make my bash life better.