Re: .bashrc doesn't work?
On 23-Sep-99 Martyn Pearce wrote:
>
> Eric G . Miller writes:
>| On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:21:47AM +0000, Martyn Pearce wrote:
>| > What are you trying to do here? Is there some bash feature being
>| > exploited that I haven't seen before?
>| >
>| I'm not trying to do anything. I was replying to an earlier post that
>| inidicated there was something wrong with putting your aliases in
>| .bashrc. Since that is what I've done, and sourced it in
>| .bash_profile, I wondered if there was something wrong with that. The
>| answer seems to be no...
>
> Oh dear, we're getting confused. My "What are you trying to do here?"
> question was aimed at Pollywog's line:
>| ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
I saw this in a book, and I believe it is just sourcing .bashrc, perhaps so
that your PATH and other settings are not executed twice because you have
put them in more than one file (in .profile and .bashrc and .bash_profile).
That is a guess on my part.
--
Andrew
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