Re: .bashrc doesn't work?

[Ron Farrer <rbf@toxic.magnesium.net>]

J Horacio MG (homega@ciberia.es) wrote:

> Not sure whether you already know this, but ~/.bashrc is for interactive
> shell, not for login shell, ie. when you login the config file read is
> ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile

Oops! In Rat Hat putting things in your .bashrc worked... I guess I have a few more things to unlearn from Rat Hat!

> Else, have those aliases defined in a file called .bash_aliases in your home
> dir, and then source that file in your ~/.bash_profile (config file for
> login shell) with this line:
> 
> source $HOME/.bash_aliases

This worked great, thanks!



Thanks again,

Ron
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