X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:50:50 -0400 Message-Id: <200710151750.l9FHooDE026151@envy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <005501c80f51$e2dcfc00$0300a8c0@desktop2> (neil DOT foster2007 AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk) Subject: Re: bash 2.05b References: <005501c80f51$e2dcfc00$0300a8c0 AT desktop2> Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > I just installed bash 2.05b but I can't figure out how to get it to read > bashrc. I have djgpp env var set to point to /djgpp and I but bash in > /djgpp/bin. Does this mean that /etc/profie should be in /etc/profile or > /djgpp/etc/profile and should it pick up the ashrc file from the user home > directory or from /djgpp? You need to pass either --login or -i (see the manual for the difference) to make bash read startup files. > Also do yo need to put #! in the first line as the example scripts > do. This seems to be necessary to get a script to work. Yes, djgpp looks at those to figure out which interpreter to use. > I'm also having problems getting aliases to work I do a command like > > alias cls="cmd /c cls" from the bash command line and it works fine but I > can't get ti to work in a bash script? bash scripts don't inherit aliases, nor do they read the startup files. You have to dot them manually (like ``. $HOME/.bashrc'')