Re: Bash startup profile. [Solved]

[Jon Wood <jon@jellybob.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 20:22, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> Jon Wood writes: 
> 
> > This is probably a really stupid question, but is there any way to get
> > bash to read ~/.bashrc when it's being started in X with the standard
> > menu item?
> 
> Not sure, but I ended up symlink'ing .bash_profile to
> .bashrc ages ago, since they seem to me to be two separate
> files to do the same thing. 

Thanks - that one seemed to do the job... appears that bash_profile is
run when you start bash from the X menu.

Jon
> 
> j. 
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