Where are my shell settings..?

[partalos]

Just got a MBP Pro 17" and want to change some of my shell settings but I can't find any bash configuration in my home dir:

me$ cd ~
me$ ls -al
total 227456
drwxr-xr-x+ 39 me  staff      1326 May 29 15:35 .
drwxr-xr-x   5 root       admin       170 May 14 19:42 ..
-rw-------   1 me  staff         3 May 19 17:05 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@  1 me  staff     15364 May 31 01:17 .DS_Store
drwx------  92 me  staff      3128 May 29 20:17 .Trash
-rw-------   1 me  staff         0 May 28 17:26 .Xauthority
-rw-------   1 me  staff       118 May 14 22:40 .asadminpass
-rw-------   1 me  staff       816 May 14 22:40 .asadmintruststore
-rw-------   1 me  staff      8522 May 31 01:38 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--   1 me  staff       110 May 27 13:47 .eclipse_keyring
drwxr-xr-x  18 me  staff       612 May 27 22:20 .fontconfig
-rw-------   1 me  staff        41 May 26 18:12 .lesshst
drwxr-xr-x   3 me  staff       102 May 27 14:34 .m2
drwx------   5 me  staff       170 May 26 18:08 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x   6 me  staff       204 May 15 13:16 .subversion
-rw-------   1 me  staff      5583 May 27 21:55 .viminfo
drwx------+  9 me  staff       306 May 31 02:10 Desktop
drwx------+ 19 me  staff       646 May 31 01:17 Documents
drwx------+ 14 me  staff       476 May 31 02:10 Downloads
drwx------+ 47 me  staff      1598 May 29 18:19 Library
drwx------+  4 me  staff       136 May 15 01:14 Movies
drwx------+  5 me  staff       170 May 15 01:10 Music
drwx------+  5 me  staff       170 May 15 01:10 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+  5 me  staff       170 May 14 19:42 Public
drwxr-xr-x   3 me  staff       102 May 27 13:40 Workspaces

where is it..?

 

[BlueRevolution]

I may be wrong, but I think the file doesn't exist by default but will be respected if you create it. What settings in particular were you looking to change?

 

[angelwatt]

Right, it doesn't exist by default. You can create either a .profile or .bash_profile file (I use .profile) and add what ever settings you want there and next time you startup Terminal it will read those files.

 

[alphaod]

You have to create it manually.