How can I change to a different folder, e.g. foo/bar
, automatically once I login into a Linux machine?
cd foo/bar
For logging shell you must modify .bash_profile
. Simply put cd foo/bar
at the end of this file.
Extra information: https://linuxize.com/post/bashrc-vs-bash-profile/ .bash_profile
vs .bashrc
With your distro, if .bash_profile
does not exist, you can modify .profile
instead:
# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells. # This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login # exists.
If you want to test it works from a terminal, but logged as another_user
, you can do:
su -l user_to_test
The important part is the -l
flag:
-, -l, --login Start the shell as a login shell with an environment similar to a real login: