also even though this diagram is so complicated it doesn’t talk about how the shell is used differently on Linux vs Mac, like in a Linux desktop (AFAIK) your window manager will often run a login shell when you login to the system. So you can use .profile to set up PATH so that it’ll work inside graphical applications
but I don’t think that happens on a Mac
Julia Evans
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2025-05-15 20:24:18 GMT
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