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Re: Bash in xterm under x*3.3.2.3a-6



On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, David Welton wrote:
> 
> > Make a symlink between bashrc and bash_profile.  Anything else is just
> > icky:->
> 
> Hmm, AFAIK, either .bash_profile or .bashrc gets sourced at the startup of
> a shell.  But .bash_profile is sourced when bash is started as a (new)
> login shell and .bashrc only when a subshell is spawned.
> 
> I put this in my .bash_profile:
> 
>     if [ -f $HOME/.bashrc ]; then
>         . $HOME/.bashrc
>     fi
Sorry, I was not precise enought: Neither .bash_profile nor
.bashrc is startet.  My .bash_profile and .bashrc looks this way
and as I sayd I didn't changed any bash specific things but
only intsalled the new xterm package along with the other
x*-6.deb stuff.

Kind regards

            Andreas.


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