Re: Starting another Xterm in X

[MallarJ@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/11/99 11:53:37 AM Central Standard Time, carlj@peak.org
writes:

> You don't need any of that if you are running bash, and the other
>  shells probably have equivalent ways of handling it.  I simply put all
>  aliases in my ~/.bashrc file, and they are always read by every
>  non-login shell including xterm shells.  Since login shells don't read
>  .bashrc by default, I put the following sequence in my .bash_profile
>  to read in .bashrc for them:
>  
>  if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]
>  then
>    case $- in
>      *i*) . ~/.bashrc
>    esac
>  fi
>  
>  The .bashrc file should also have any other commands that need to be
>  executed for every interactive shell (such as fortune for me).
>  


This works beautfully - thanks for the great tip!!

-jay