On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:40:05AM -0400, Levi Bard wrote:
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>
> In other words, only interactive, nonlogin bash shells read ~/.bashrc .
> You may want to put the alias in ~/.bash_profile as well, or only in
> ~/.bash_profile. Since some terminals invoke a login shell and some don't,
> you may want to set your xterms accordingly.
>
While this may be true technically, I've never seen a distro that
doesn't at least provide for .bashrc to be called on login. In debian,
.bash_profile provides for calling .bashrc (which is typical of other
distros), but it must be uncommented to make it work.
Paul
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