bashrc file is a script file that’s executed when a user logs in. The file itself contains a series of configurations for the terminal session. This includes setting up or enabling: coloring, completion, shell history, command aliases, and more. It is a hidden file and simple ls command won’t show the file.

How do I find the Bashrc file in Linux?

The quickest way to access it is nano ~/. bashrc from a terminal (replace nano with whatever you like to use). If this is not present in a user’s home folder the system-wide . bashrc is used as a fallback as it is loaded before the user’s file.

How do I open a .bashrc file?

bashrc files. Now, you will edit and (and “source”) the ~/. bashrc file. I noticed that pure exec bash command will preserve the environment variables, so you need to use exec -c bash to run bash in an empty environment.