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running .bashrc
Name: iraja Date: February 24, 2002 at 21:27:32 Pacific
Comment:
Hi everyone, i have problems with .bashrc. Following is the file
#! /bin/bash alias l='ls -asl' echo " hello world"
and it is not working...when i run ./.bashrc it does echoes hello world. but when i tye l it say bash:command not found. well i have tried everything being a root, changing permissions etc etc..nothing seems to be working. Can anyone help me out.
Name: hena Date: February 25, 2002 at 02:39:23 Pacific
Reply:
Remove the first line "#!/bin/bash" from the .bashrc file. That makes it to be a script file which works only when it is run. The ~/.bashrc is not a script file but a config file for bash.
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Response Number 2
Name: iraja Date: February 25, 2002 at 04:39:42 Pacific
Reply:
thanx hena, i have tried that as well. giving at the first line # alias l='ls -asl' doesn't worked
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Response Number 3
Name: hena Date: February 25, 2002 at 04:59:04 Pacific
Reply:
The first line don't need to have anything. Anything after # is considered as comment (few exceptions to this eq. #! which is a script file).
Did you relog after changes? You need to log in to make the changes to be activated. It is read every time you log in. Alternativaly you can give command "source .bashrc", which will reload the whole file (man source).
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