[UCLA-LUG] .bash_profile and .bashrc files

[LEE,JAMES WOON]

Why don't you try rebooting?  I just put alias ls='ls -a --color' in
/etc/bashrc and .bash_profile.  I didn't work when I logged out and logged
back in but it started working once I rebooted.


On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, MIng Yu wrote:

> Yes, I do completely log out of my system and relogin but it still does 't work.
> Also, I put the line   alias ls="ls -a --color"  in the .bash_profile and .bashrc
> under my home directory and in the /etc/bashrc file. The way it works now is that,
> I need to type bash -login to pretend that this terminal is a login shell.
> Otherwise, the terminal from the toolbar icon in neither GNOME nor KDE won't
> execute my .bash_profile and .bashrc files.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Ming
> 
> Mark James Fasheh wrote:
> 
> > Just curious, have you completely logged out of your system, then logged
> > back in?  I don't think the bash init files are read everytime an xterm, etc
> > is run, but they should inherit anything from your main login shell (which
> > needs to be restarted to load the init files).
> >         --Mark
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