Where do I find .bashrc in 11.2

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dalpets

*********** My aim is to change sh to bash in the terminal *************
Number of packages to be installed: 1



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Message from bash-completion-2.9,1:


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To enable the bash completion library, add the following to

your .bashrc file:


*********** are these two line exactly how they appear below ************

[[ $PS1 && -f /usr/local/share/bash-completion/bash_completion.sh ]] && \

source /usr/local/share/bash-completion/bash_completion.sh



See /usr/local/share/doc/bash-completion/README.md for more information.

***********I've desisted from applying anything in the verbose readme file as I fear messing up the existing configuration. Thanks. **************
 
scottro said:
I've found, no research or testing, that I have to create a $HOME/.bash_profile saying
Code: 
source ~/.bashrc
for FreeBSD to pay attention to my $HOME/.bashrc
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Indeed, I have the same in ~/.bash_profile, and it's due to the difference between the login and non-login interactive shells, looking at the bash man page, the login shell reads ~/.bash_profile, and interactive non-login shell reads ~/.bashrc, though I'm not sure how is that difference useful.
 
Like in any manpage that comes with FreeBSD and it's ports, look at the FILES section near the end, bash(1) in your case.

Some pieces of software like shells also have something like a "Startup" or "Invocation" Section at the beginning of the manpage that explain the conditions under which the various configuration files are sourced.
 
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