From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Feb 22 13:18:48 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from relay4.hawaii.edu (relay4.hawaii.edu [128.171.94.12])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12B8837B705
	for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:18:45 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from rohrer@hawaii.edu)
Received: from uhunix2.its.hawaii.edu ([128.171.44.7]) by relay4.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <130002(7)>; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:18:30 -1000
Received: from localhost by uhunix2.its.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <183013(7)>; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:09:48 -1000
From: Matt Rohrer <rohrer@hawaii.edu>
To: David Banning <tracker@worldy.com>
Cc: FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: bash doesn't recognize .profile when in X
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002221533250.16245-100000@mweb.worldy.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10002221107510.9027-100000@uhunix2>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Date:	Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:15:08 -1000
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG


On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, David Banning wrote:

> I have this command in my .profile which allows me to do a "ls -lt" with
> just an "l";
> 
> l() { /bin/ls -lt $*; }			# less typing
> 
> that works find when not in X - but when I fire up my window manager
> (kde)
> it will not recognize the command.
> 
> Any ideas ?

If I remember correctly, bash only reads your .profile when you login.
If you start another terminal, bash looks for your .bashrc. I have all
of my aliases in my .bashrc, and my .profile has a "source .bashrc"
line. See man bash for more details.

> 
> thanx
> 
> Dave Banning
> 
> 
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
> 

-Matt




To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message