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Choosing between .bashrc, .profile, .bash_profile,
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For better understanding, you may need inotifywait to verify it by yourself, mine is running under Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

  1. Install sudo apt-get install -y inotify-tools
  2. Run inotifywait in a tmux tab as below.
  3. Start a new pane in tmux by CTRL^B + "
  4. You may see .bash_profile get OPENED
  5. Exit the tmux pane.
  6. You may see .bash_logout get OPENED
$ inotifywait -mr -e OPEN ./.profile ./.bashrc ./.bash_profile ./.bash_logout                                                              
Setting up watches.  Beware: since -r was given, this may take a while Watches established.                                                  
                                                                      
./.bash_profile OPEN                                                  
./.bash_logout OPEN
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