On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:01:24 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > Well, I'd like to have fbrun use my aliases. e.g., running foo instead of foo --bar --baz=noo
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