On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 01:29:49AM GMT, Gerard Walschap wrote:
> I see. There is a .bashrc file in my home directory with the line
> -
> source /Users/gerard/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc
> -
> So I guess installing perl did override my .profile, although I'm not
> sure ho
I see. There is a .bashrc file in my home directory with the line
-
source /Users/gerard/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc
-
So I guess installing perl did override my .profile, although I'm not sure how.
The "source" man page redirects to "built in".
I'm not quite happy w
- Gerard Walschap [2013-02-18 19:16:22 -0600] - :
> Thanks to all. I guess I misunderstood the first post regarding
> .bash.profile. Just to make sure I understand, are you saying I should try
> replacing the .profile with .bash_profile? The shell is bash by default.
>
> -G
I recommend putting the following line at the top of your .bash_profile file:
echo Executing .bash_profile
and see what happens when you log in.
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:43:12PM GMT, William Muriithi wrote:
> That's correct. Bash use .bash_profile for user specific changes and
> /etc/profile for system wide configurations
Hi William,
That's not entirely accurate - under certain circumstances Bash does
indeed read $HOME/.profile.
When i
Gerard,
> Thanks to all. I guess I misunderstood the first post regarding
.bash.profile. Just to make sure I understand, are you saying I should try
replacing the .profile with .bash_profile? The shell is bash by default.
>
That's correct. Bash use .bash_profile for user specific changes an
