Lo, on Wednesday, March 7, Colin Cashman did write: > I have .bashrc set up to support color ls, but .bashrc isn't called when > I log in.
As expected. See bash's man page (specifically the `INVOCATION' section) for a discussion of the startup sequence. > If I subsequently start a new shell, however, or 'source .bashrc' then > the file is read and processed. > > What's the best way to handle this so it's done automagically upon > logging in? Just throw "source .bashrc" onto the end of the .bash_profile > file? Basically, yes. Richard
