On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:48:37AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Tue 27 Mar 01, 11:22 AM, Micah Cowan said:
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:16:35AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > i think the answer is no, but i'll ask anyway.
> > >
> > > is there a way to export bash aliases, like we do with bash variables, so
> > > that the aliases are available to subsequent subshells?
> > >
> > > p
> > >
> > > --
> > > "Coffee... I've conquered the Borg on coffee!" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > -- Kathryn Janeway on the virtues of coffee www.dirac.org/p
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean - isn't that the /default/ behavior?
>
> not at all! put an alias into /etc/profile. source the file.
>
> now start X.
>
> is your alias available to you in an xterm? (answer is no).
> give it a try!
That's completely non-sequitur. /etc/profile isn't loaded in xterm.
/etc/bashrc is. So try /exactly/ the same trick with /etc/bashrc,
don't bother to source it (but do save it) and open a new xterm.
Answer is 'yes'. Give it a try! :)
/etc/bashrc and ~/.bashrc are not loaded for interactive logins, and
are loaded for non-interactive logins.
/etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile are loaded for interactive logins and
are not loaded for non-interactive logins.
This is completely useless behavior for me, so here is the complete
contents of my ~/.bash_profile:
#!/bin/bash
# .bash_profile
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]
then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
-Micah
