From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 13 14:11:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A5616A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:11:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.pc-gamereview.com (mx1.pc-gamereview.com [216.99.211.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94AC743D5C for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fudo@spamblocked.com) Received: from Spooler by mx1.pc-gamereview.com (Mercury/32 v4.01) ID MO00006A; 13 Apr 2004 14:11:26 -0700 Received: from spooler by mx1.pc-gamereview.com (Mercury/32 v4.01); 13 Apr 2004 14:10:31 -0700 Received: from spamblocked.com (209.168.20.18) by mx1.pc-gamereview.com NO UCE - NO UBE (Mercury/32 v4.01) with ESMTP ID MG000069; 13 Apr 2004 14:10:11 -0700 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:09:42 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: fudo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) Subject: problems with .bashrc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:11:27 -0000 I'm new to FreeBSD, and to bash. I'm running FreeBSD 5.0, and added bash from the cd during install. There are .profile and .shrc files in my home directory; .profile references .shrc with ENV=$HOME/.shrc; export ENV. There are several uncommented alias lines in the .shrc file, but none of them work. From what I've read, bash should read .profile and .shrc, but just in case, I tried copying them to .bash_profile and .bashrc, changing ENV to =$HOME/.bashrc, and renaming the original files, but the aliases still don't work. Aliases are formatted: alias ll='ls -laFo'; entering that at the prompt and it works fine. Seems like bash isn't reading the rc file. Obviously, I'm missing something; any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. fudo@spamblocked.com