Problem with aliases in bash as login shell

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Nov 21 21:51:00 GMT 2008


On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:10:32AM -0600, Ryan Stewart wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Morche Matthias
><Matthias.Morche@p7s1produktion.de> wrote:
>> I bet Your line with the call of .bashrc from .bash_profile looks like
>> .bashrc
>> change it to
>> . .bashrc
>> and it will do what You intend and then RTFM for an explanation :-)
>>
>Thanks. I'm a linux nub. It took a good bit of looking to find an
>explanation though, especially since no search engine understands "."
>as a search term.

google is not the final authority.  "info bash" or "man bash" would give
you this info much more directly.

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