As Shaya Potter said: > > On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote: > > > Well its been a few years since I used unix.. so > > > > 3. In what ini file do I put my aliases so I get em all the time when I > > start a bash > > shell in a xterm window? > > put them in both .bash_rc and .bash_profile in your home directory >
You can also start xterm as a login-shell with: xterm -ls & As a login shell, it will read the /etc/profile and ~/.profile files. Is this method frowned upon? I like it so I don't have to duplicate settings in .bashrc --gilbert ______________________________________________________________________ Gilbert Ramirez Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Texas http://merece.uthscsa.edu/gram Health Science Center at San Antonio University Health System