Re: Few quick questions

[gram@merece.uthscsa.edu (Gilbert Ramirez Jr.)]

As Shaya Potter said:
> 
> On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote:
> 
> > Well its been a few years since I used unix.. so
> > 
> > 3. In what ini file do I put my aliases so I get em all the time when I
> > start a bash
> > shell in a xterm window?
> 
> put them in both .bash_rc and .bash_profile in your home directory
>  

You can also start xterm as a login-shell with:

xterm -ls &

As a login shell, it will read the /etc/profile and ~/.profile files.

Is this method frowned upon? I like it so I don't have to duplicate settings
in .bashrc   

--gilbert

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