Re: ? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

[Dave Price <davep@kinaole.org>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:13:10PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> Where are the examples? Where is other docs about user space 
> initialization?

Here is mine:

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
	. /etc/bashrc
fi

# User specific aliases and functions

PS1="[\u@\h:\w]\$ "

set -o vi

#export LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1

# because i can't type

alias cdc="cd"
alias cdd="cd"

alias cls="clear"
alias dir="ls -l | less"

alias dos="dosemu -home"

alias atrm="aterm --background  \#4682b4 -fn
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200
-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1 -title $HOSTNAME -geometry 80x25 &"

alias atrmtr="aterm -tr -fn
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8
859-1 -title $HOSTNAME -geometry 80x30 &"

alias xt="xterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1 -title $HOSTNAME -geometry 80x30 &"

alias cb="~/pycheckbook/PyCheckbook.py ~/pycheckbook/wells-fargo.qif &"

alias weblog="tail -f /var/log/apache/access.log"

# .....
Under Debian, you can also tweak /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc to make
global changes for all users (you must be root to do this)

# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
# and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:~/bin:/usr/games"

if [ "$BASH" ]; then
  PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
else
  if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
    PS1='# '
  else
    PS1='$ '
  fi
fi

export PATH PS1

umask 022

# ...................

You can also find good info on bash in the bash-prompt how-to and
bash-programming how-to at http://linuxdocs.org (and other mirrors)

There is a difference between 'login shells' and non-interactive shell
environments, which may or may not be an issue ... non-interactive
environments are passed to: bash invocations from scripts and x-term
type shells launched on your desktop once you are logged in.

When you are playing with these files, the command 'source' as in:
source ~/.bashrc

is handy ... causes the file to be read and run just as if you had logged
out and back in ...

aloha,
dave