Re: Can't get .bashrc to work

2002-08-26 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:04:16AM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: > Try putting the alias in .bash_profile. The .bashrc file doesn't get > source when you login. It does if you do: [ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc from ~/.bash_profile. -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscri

Re: Can't get .bashrc to work

2002-08-26 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi, Am Montag, 26. August 2002 20:04 schrieb Samuel Flory: > /etc/profile contains system wide settings. Better to put personal system wide stuff into /etc/profile.local. At the end of /etc/profile you just type "source /etc/profile.local" and this file will be sourced whenever you login :-)

Re: Can't get .bashrc to work

2002-08-26 Thread Samuel Flory
Try putting the alias in .bash_profile. The .bashrc file doesn't get source when you login. On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:37, James K Kroger wrote: > Hi all.I have added some lines to my .bashrc in > an attempt to make an alias and change my prompt. Though > I completely log out and back in, t

Re: Can't get .bashrc to work

2002-08-26 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi, Am Montag, 26. August 2002 12:16 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > huh? perhaps i'm still hung up on years of ksh usage, but > why should the difference in quotes in *setting* an alias that > has no special shell metacharacters make any difference? Hmm, I agree alias foo = 'foo -v" works fine

Re: Can't get .bashrc to work

2002-08-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 25 Aug 2002, Gary A. Garibaldi wrote: > Change alias x='xemacs' to > alias x="xemacs" > this should fix your .bashrc problem with alias use " " huh? perhaps i'm still hung up on years of ksh usage, but why should the difference in quotes in *setting* an alias that has no special shell

Re: Can't get .bashrc to work

2002-08-26 Thread Al Sparks
--- "Gary A. Garibaldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Change alias x='xemacs' to > alias x="xemacs" > this should fix your .bashrc problem with alias use " " In this particular case, alias x=xemacs or alias x='xemacs' or alias x=xemacs will do the same thing. Do it doesn't matte

Re: Can't get .bashrc to work

2002-08-25 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
Change alias x='xemacs' to alias x="xemacs" this should fix your .bashrc problem with alias use " " On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:37, James K Kroger wrote: > Hi all.I have added some lines to my .bashrc in > an attempt to make an alias and change my prompt. Though > I completely log out a

Re: Can't get .bashrc to work

2002-08-25 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 10:37:14PM -0400, James K Kroger wrote: > Hi all.I have added some lines to my .bashrc in > an attempt to make an alias and change my prompt. Though > I completely log out and back in, the changes do not take > effect (but xemacs does work when I type "xemacs"). What d