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Old 08-09-2004, 02:31 PM   #1
pfaendtner
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Question .bashrc, .bash_profile, .bash_confused


Hi,

I have searched a bunch online but I'm still not able a website which makes this clear.

I have a file ( .alias ) which stores all of my aliases that I normally used. Until recently I was just logging in to my workstation from a terminal and my .alias file was sourced just fine. I Have a file called .login which contains the line "source .alias" and there was no problem.

Now I have a new workstation which I used a terminal window launched from gnome. I can type "source .alias" from the command line and it's fine but I can't seem to get it to automatically read my aliases when I launch the terminal window.

I have tried to modify .bashrc (added source .alias) and .bash_profile (added source .bashrc) with no luck.

Can someone

1) explain what is going on, and
2) tell me what to do to fix the problem?


THANKS!
 
Old 08-09-2004, 02:48 PM   #2
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Basically, .bash_profile is invoked for login shells and .bashrc is invoked for non-login shells. So what you did ought to work. If not, make sure your shell is being invoked as bash (and not sh) -- echo $SHELL should tell you which it is. If it is being invoked as sh you can use chsh to change it to bash. Otherwise, you can put an echo statement into your .bashrc to make sure it is being invoked. What happens when you try to source .bashrc directly from the terminal?
 
Old 08-09-2004, 03:19 PM   #3
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figured it out,

the shell launched w/ the gnome-terminal was tcsh so I just made a file .tcshrc with " source .login "

now I'm golden!
 
  


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