aterm -e screen does not source .bashrc (was: Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution))

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Tue Jul 11 15:57:11 UTC 2006


On 2006-07-11 11:18, Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>> I added this option but I still do not get my ~/.profile sourced
>>> (no aliases).  Going '. ~/.profile' gives me my aliases.  How does
>>> aterm know what file to look for?
>>
>> aterm doesn't care about .profile or other files.  It starts a shell,
>> based on the $SHELL environment variable and your login shell from
>> `/etc/passwd'.
>>
>> What shell are you using?
>
> $ echo $SHELL
> /usr/local/bin/bash
>
> $ grep peter /etc/passwd
> peter:*:1002:100:User &:/home/peter:/usr/local/bin/bash
>
> Do I need to set up a different file (.bashrc)?

GNU bash will not read .profile if you also have a .bash_profile file.

What do you see in your HOME directory with:

	$ ls -ld .*profile .*rc

In my local setup here, I see something like this:

    $ pwd
    /home/giorgos
    $ ls -ld .bash* .sh* .profile
    -rw-------  1 giorgos  giorgos  - 30103 Jul 11 18:47 .bash_history
    -rw-rw-r--  1 giorgos  giorgos  -   318 Jul 11 17:47 .bash_profile
    -rw-rw-r--  1 giorgos  giorgos  -  3742 Jul 11 18:17 .bashrc
    -rw-rw-r--  1 giorgos  giorgos  -  1006 Mar 29 07:19 .profile
    -rw-rw-r--  1 giorgos  giorgos  -  1433 Nov 18  2004 .shrc
    $



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