Re: BASH Shell question

[Chet Ramey]

> --I have used Linux for a while but have recently gotten an OS X
> machine and converted one Linux Box to Free BSD. 
> 
> -- I installed Bash on both.
> 
> --On my Linux setups I would enter aliases in .bashrc located in my
> home directory and they would work as expected.
> 
> --Neither FreeBSD nor OS X seem to make any notice of my .bashrc
> files.  
> 
> --Any ideas?

If you mean that aliases don't show up in your login shells, add a
line like the following to ~/.bash_profile:

        [ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc

The INVOCATION section of the manual page explains this in excruciating
detail.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/