One of the most common tasks I face is copying profile data among computers, in both Windows and Linux. And as you would expect, both operating systems handle the profile data very differently. In GNU ...

I'm trying to get a number of variables setup on login and have put them in this file.<P>The user uses bash as it's default shell but .bash_profile dosn't seem to run on login.<P>What am I missing ...

If you installed OS X 10.3 from scratch, chances are your default Unix shell is bash. Those who upgraded from 10.2 (or earlier) will find that opening a new Terminal windows presents a tcsh shell ...

Windows is better than Linux in some stuff, but Linux has always been better than Windows in other things.