On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:58 -0400, Benjamin Leggett wrote:
> Alright guys, I'm a beginner in need of a little shell help.
> 
> What I want to do is make fbrun (the run dialog for fluxbox) aware of
> my bashrc. Upon perusing the source, I found that fbrun execs the
> given
> string with $SHELL if set, otherwise /bin/sh is used. My $SHELL is set
> to bash so fbrun runs the command with a non-interactive bash shell
> (the "-c" option.)
> 
> Checking the bash manpage, I found that bash apparently checks the
> environment variable $BASH_ENV for an rc file if it's run with the -c
> option. I sure that I should probably know this, but where should I
> set
> this variable? I considered dropping something in /etc/env.d, but that
> didn't work, and I don't know if that's the right way to do it.
> 
> Any help appreciated,

I guess my question would be why do you (think you) want to run
your .bashrc?  That's really designed for setting up interactive stuff.



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