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Subject: Re: bash doesn't recognize .profile when in X
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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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