2006. July 27. 00:28, Derek Martin: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:47:39PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > > > So either set konsole up to launch ksh as a login shell, or set > > > ENV somewhere. You can test this with: > > > > > > $ ENV="~/.profile" konsole > > > > > > Or launch konsole, and do: > > > $ ksh -l > > > > The .profile is always gets parsed (both in a login and a non-login > > shell). > > This is not correct, unless you have a line such as the following in > your .profile: > > export ENV=~/.profile > > However, your non-login shells will inherit exported variables from > your login shell, so your prompts will still be set, etc. This is > the difference between variables that are exported and not exported. > > > When I start pdksh in a non-login shell, the .profile gets parsed, > > and the PATH and every other env.var. gets set. Only the aliases > > gets ignored, but why? > > Because you are mistaken... the .profile does not get parsed. The > environment variables are being inherited from the parent shell. if > the .profile was being parsed, your aliases would be there too. > > > If I add the ENV="~/.kshrc" line to my .profile and my ~/.kshrc > > contains my aliases, then I still can not see my aliases... > > You need to export ENV. This can be done as I did above, or like > this: > > ENV=~/.profile; export ENV > > > The man says that "if the ENV parameter is set when the shell > > starts" :) This is funny because I can set the ENV parameter in a > > shell, and I can not set it before running the shell :) > > Yes you can... you can export it from a parent shell. > > > Something must be running already (eg. KDE) to be able to set up > > the variable. I can put a file which contains 'ENV="~/.kshrc"' to > > my ~/.kde/env/ and that gets sourced by kde startup, so the ENV > > parameter will be set when I start konsole. Wait a minute... that > > is what I'm gonna do! :) > > And if you tried that, it didn't work either... because you didn't > export ENV. Okay okay I got it thanks! :D
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