where is the bash_profile? i cannot find it on my gentoo.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Alan McKinnon<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 September 2009 14:24:10 Renat Golubchyk wrote: >> Hi! >> >> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:09:12 +0800 >> >> Xi Shen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > every time i reboot the system, the ~/.bashrc will not be >> > read/executed automatically. i have give it x attribute. also i have >> > checked the /etc/bash/bashrc file, and i did not find and logic about >> > reading/executing the ~/.bashrc file. is there anything wrong with my >> > system? >> >> You don't need the executable bit set on bashrc. ~/.bashrc gets read >> when you start an interactive shell, e.g. an xterm. When you log in a >> login shell is started, which reads ~/.bash_profile. If you want that >> your ~/.bashrc will be read on login include the following statement >> in ~/.bash_profile >> >> [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc > > The standard bash_profile shipped in skel even has a comment directly above > that (commented) line saying something to the effect of "uncomment the > following line to have .bashrc read at every new shell"... > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84
