How to force Gnu screen to load my bash .profile

Question

I have ~/.bash_profile which I would like to be invoked every single time a new GNU screen is created so that all my aliases work in GNU screen as they work in terminal.

At this time this is what my ~/.screenrc looks like.

hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string "%{.bW}%-w%{.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %H %{..Y} %m/%d %C%a "

Answer 1

shell -$SHELL

Add the above line to your ~/.screenrc, this will make screen start-up using a login shell which will load your ~/.bash_profile.

Answer 2

Some Mac applications relie on .bash_profile and some on .bashrc. I have not figured out any particular rule for knowning which one is getting loaded but for consistency this is my .bash_profile:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

Answer 3

add "shell -$SHELL" in the ~/.screenrc works for me it will make every screen session as a nornal shell session

Answer 4

The problem is a little vague; shell startup files are run by screen upon creation of windows, that yours aren't feels like something is misconfigured in your .bashrc or .bash_profile. I haven't run into this using screen on OS X.

Have you tried iTerm instead of screen? I use it exclusively on my Mac and then use screen on the servers I admin.