Looking at Your csh Configuration Files

As Code Listing 8.18 (on the next page) shows, you can use more or the editor of your choice to peek at your csh configuration files. As with other shells, the csh configuration files run in a specific order:

  • System-wide configuration files (such as /etc/csh.cshrc)are read first upon log in.

  • The main configuration files specific to your Unix account (~/.cshrc) are read next if they’re available.

  • The ~/.login configuration file is read last.

To look at your csh configuration files:

  • more ~/.cshrc ~/.login

    Type more followed by .cshrc and .login, which are the only possible names for csh configuration files. You’ll see something similar to Code Listing 8.18. For our system, we have

    • ~/.cshrc (automatically called ...

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