The former image is from a blog post entitled "Shell Startup Scripts" [0] which I've just submitted [1] separately because it's so much more informative (it's b

The former image is from a blog post entitled "Shell Startup Scripts" [0] which I've just submitted [1] separately because it's so much more informative (it's been posted to HN previously but never really provoked much discussion). That blog post was my primary reference after zshall(5) when I decided to blow away the years of cruft I'd built up, start over, and rewrite my (Zsh) shell init files from scratch -- and I've been amazed at how much more organized and manageable it all is since then! Prior to switching to Zsh, I had gotten to the point of just dumping everything in one file and making sure it was sourced (by bash) in all instances. -- [0]: https://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.html?hn=20201024 https://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.ht... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24881944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24881944