On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, David Gethings wrote: > > As you rightly pointed out neither .bashrc nor .bash_profile are > executable. For the line in your .bash_profile to include your config in > .bashrc make it executable (chmod u+x .bashrc). >
No, you don't need to do that. The . tells it to be parsed. You only need it to be executable if you want to execute it directly -- ie, ~/.bashrc or just .bashrc if you are already in your home directory. Ric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list