Change the location of .bashrc

Is it possible to change the location of .bashrc from /home/orhanc/.bashrc to some other directory?

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Method 1

Yes. You have three main options:

Symlink ~/.bashrc,

mv ~/.bashrc ~/blah && ln -s ~/blah/.bashrc ~/.bashrc

source the new file from ~/.bashrc,

mv ~/.bashrc ~/blah && cat > ~/.bashrc << 'EOF'
. ~/blah/.bashrc
EOF

or launch bash with --rcfile.

mv ~/.bashrc ~/blah
bash --rcfile ~/blah/.bashrc


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