Sage startup scripts

There are two kinds of startup scripts that Sage reads when starting:

The sagerc shell script

The bash shell script $DOT_SAGE/sagerc (with the default value of DOT_SAGE, this is ~/.sage/sagerc) is read by SAGE_ROOT/src/bin/sage-env after Sage has set its environment variables. It can be used to override some of the environment variables determined by Sage, or it can contain other shell commands like creating directories. This script is sourced not only when running Sage itself, but also when running any of the subcommands (like sage --python, sage -b or sage -i <package>). In particular, setting PS1 here overrides the default prompt for the Sage shells sage --buildsh and sage --sh.

Note

This script is run with the Sage directories in its PATH, so executing git for example will run the Git inside Sage.

The default location of this file can be changed using the environment variable SAGE_RC_FILE.

The init.sage script

The Sage script $DOT_SAGE/init.sage (with the default value of DOT_SAGE, this is ~/.sage/init.sage) contains Sage commands to be executed every time Sage starts. If you want symbolic variables y and z in every Sage session, you could put

var('y, z')

in this file.

The default location of this file can be changed using the environment variable SAGE_STARTUP_FILE.