bash sees all lines as 80 chars long

David Starks-Browning starksb@ebi.ac.uk
Fri Jul 2 07:00:00 GMT 1999


This was the answer to getting bash to recognise that it was in a
window > 80 characters wide:

On Monday 10 May 99, Stewart, Wayne writes:
> bash$ kill -WINCH $$
> 
> after resizing the window does the trick!

How can I get bash to do this automatically at startup?  I tried
putting "kill -WINCH $$" in ~/.bashrc, but this doesn't work.  It only
seems to work at the command line.  I would hate to type this (or some
alias) every time I open a bash window, which in my case *always*
starts with > 80 characters.

Thanks,
David

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