Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:14:39 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> To: David Banning <tracker@worldy.com> Cc: FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bash doesn't recognize .profile when in X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002221412510.241-100000@mammalia.sea> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002221533250.16245-100000@mweb.worldy.com>
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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 ?
Yes, you need a .bashrc file to configure bash for non-login shells. What
I did was create a hard link from .profile to .bashrc.
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