Hi.

Running Suse 10.0 on an x86_64 machine. Have been using the bash shell, which is of course the default shell. I've just installed some software that required me to run it's particular installation script from the csh - so I simply changed shells temporarily >csh and carried on from there. All went well.

To run the actual program in question now I have to change to the csh and then 'source...../setup'

My questions are :

1. Where can I find the .cshrc file to put this 'source....' line into? It's not in my home directory with .bashrc and 'find' has failed to turn anything up.

2. Even if I put this line into .cshrc, is this file run everytime I change shells - from bash to csh? I really don't want to change shells permanently.

3. I tried doing something like this in .bashrc :

alias myname="csh;source...../setup"

but I reckon that this is a bit wacky! Would be grateful for any help. God forbid I actually have to type csh followed by source..../setup evertime I want to run the thing...

Thanks

From a console,

cd /etc

ls *.cshrc

But, in case it's in a subdirectory, you could also try

find /etc -name '*.cshrc' -type f

.cshrc should go in your home directory. If it isn't there, you can simply create it.

.cshrc has the same function as .bashrc - it is read each time you enter a non-login shell. Therefore, everytime you open a csh, .cshrc will be read.

I hope this helps
--Ian

I ran across this today, and will leave this for anyone else who has problems. the file is hidden, so to see it do a ls -a.

Did not know that!!

Yes, indeed: that leading "." in the name causes it to be a hidden file.