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

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