Re: .bashrc

[joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij)]

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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:52AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote:
>   I am running Debian potato and am having a problem with .bashrc. It
> works fine as root but does not get executed when I log in as a user. The
> default .bashrc contains one alias command (the rest are commented
> out). When I type 'alias' (under the regular user account), no aliases
> are shown. What gives?

Put this in .bash_profile:

  if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]
  then
    . ~/.bashrc
  fi

If you want to understand why, read the bash(1) manual page.

  man bash

Cheers,


Joost