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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo wont read .bashrc automatically
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:15:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909012315.12594.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090901142410.680eb2d6@symbox>

On Tuesday 01 September 2009 14:24:10 Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:09:12 +0800
>
> Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > every time i reboot the system, the ~/.bashrc will not be
> > read/executed automatically. i have give it x attribute. also i have
> > checked the /etc/bash/bashrc file, and i did not find and logic about
> > reading/executing the ~/.bashrc file. is there anything wrong with my
> > system?
>
> You don't need the executable bit set on bashrc. ~/.bashrc gets read
> when you start an interactive shell, e.g. an xterm. When you log in a
> login shell is started, which reads ~/.bash_profile. If you want that
> your ~/.bashrc will be read on login include the following statement
> in ~/.bash_profile
>
> [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

The standard bash_profile shipped in skel even has a comment directly above 
that (commented) line saying something to the effect of "uncomment the 
following line to have .bashrc read at every new shell"...

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-01 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-01 12:09 [gentoo-user] my gentoo wont read .bashrc automatically Xi Shen
2009-09-01 12:24 ` Renat Golubchyk
2009-09-01 21:15   ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-09-02 11:28     ` Xi Shen
2009-09-02 12:02       ` Dale
2009-09-02 12:15         ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-03  0:59           ` Xi Shen
2009-09-02 12:04       ` Xavier Parizet

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