Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Stewart
When bash is started with the -l (that's an 'L') flag, aliases that I've defined in .bashrc don't take effect. My .bash_profile includes a call to .bashrc, and I know that .bashrc is being executed because I've put an echo at the beginning and end of it, and both messages are printed out. Even if

RE: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Morche Matthias
Hi Ryan, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... When bash is started with the -l (that's an 'L') flag, aliases that I've defined in .bashrc don't take effect. My .bash_profile includes a call to .bashrc, and I know that .bashrc is being executed because ... I bet Your line

Re: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Stewart
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Morche Matthias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bet Your line with the call of .bashrc from .bash_profile looks like .bashrc change it to . .bashrc and it will do what You intend and then RTFM for an explanation :-) Thanks. I'm a linux nub. It took a good bit of

Re: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:10:32AM -0600, Ryan Stewart wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Morche Matthias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bet Your line with the call of .bashrc from .bash_profile looks like .bashrc change it to . .bashrc and it will do what You intend and then RTFM for an

Re: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Stewart
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: google is not the final authority. info bash or man bash would give you this info much more directly. A nearly 4900 line man page is not exactly direct. That was the first place I looked. It was also the last place I

RE: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Stephan Mueller
Ryan Stewart wrote: A nearly 4900 line man page is not exactly direct. That was the first place I looked. It was also the last place I looked, but even knowing more or less what I was looking for, I couldn't find it. Can you point me to a line number in the man page? The '.' command is a

Re: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-11-21 15:24Z, Ryan Stewart wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^ http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR google is not the final authority. info bash or man bash would give you this info

Re: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:10:32AM -0600, Ryan Stewart wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Morche Matthias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bet Your line with the call of .bashrc from .bash_profile looks like .bashrc change it to . .bashrc and it will do what You intend and then RTFM for an

Re: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Ryan Stewart wrote: A nearly 4900 line man page is not exactly direct. That was the first place I looked. It was also the last place I looked, but even knowing more or less what I was looking for, I couldn't find it. Can you point me to a line number in the

Re: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Stewart
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be fair, you have to do a lot of reading to learn the necessary concepts; there's not really a simple statement you can search for. Start with the section COMMAND EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT, which is at line 1665 on my system

Re: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

2008-11-21 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Ryan Stewart wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^ There's a policy on this list of not including email addresses in the body of messages, so as to minimize spam exposure. So please don't include addresses