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Mar 7, 2016 at 22:06 comment added G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' Short answer to question #5: environment variables are stored in the memory of each process — that's why it's possible for each process to have a different environment.  See To whom do environment variables belong? for some more information.
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Mar 7, 2016 at 21:08 comment added Valentin Bajrami To get a full understanding of which file does what, consider reading: mywiki.wooledge.org/DotFiles
Mar 7, 2016 at 20:52 comment added FelixJN Note that using .bashrc is only valid, as long as you use bash as your login shell. It might happen that you start preferring some other shell in the future and would then need to modify the respective rc-file.
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