OS X may have patched their bash to read /etc/bashrc by default as well, but not everyone does this.<BR><BR>I would presume when ~/.xinitrc gets run, it's not a login shell, so you're going to get the ...
The .history file in Linux – whether ~/.bash_history, ~/.zsh_history or ~/.history – provides ways to track and reuse commands that you have recently run. This post suggests how you might make good ...