When the Bash shell is started as an interactive (but not login) shell, the .bashrc script (if it exists) is read and executed. The --norc option can prevent this, and the --rcfile <file> option will cause Bash to read and execute <file> instead of .bashrc.
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How can I check whether Vim has the -p (tabs) option or not?
I would like to figure out in my .bashrc (or one of the files it sources) whether Vim has the -p option available and if so create an alias.
Now, that same .bashrc is used on numerous systems ...
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What is the correct way to alias applications in OS X through bash?
In my ~/.bashrc, I have several aliases like:
alias emacs='/Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs'
alias octave='/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
alias ...
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1answer
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Multiple .bashrc.save in my ~/home/user/
I noticed that in my home folder I have multiple .bashrc.save files. Why the system save them? It is normal or I have to disable something?
Specifically I have
.bashrc
.bashrc.save
...
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Create a function that wraps an alias, but prints out the alias string
I want to create a bash function that will basically wrap an alias, except that it will output what the alias is doing so I don't forget the actual command.
e.g.:
alias abc='cd ~/root'
So when I ...
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1answer
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Linux: coloring bash prompt will broke carriage return
When I try to colorize the bash prompt like this:
export PS1="\e[0;31m[\u@\h \W]\$ \e[m "
it breaks the carriage return (instead of going to a new line when line is full, it starts in the same line ...
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source .bashrc doesn't work
I installed TinyOS on RedHat for my academic purposes. Now I can't log in to the system.
I logged in in single user mode.
Then I tried to log in.
I couldn't login in as any user.
I couldn't start the ...
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Alias that allows to edit ~/.bashrc and then “sources” it automatically - Why it doesn't work?
I use MacBook Air with OSX 10.7.2.
I would like to create an alias that does the following:
Opens TextMate with ~/.bashrc and allows me to edit it
Once I close TextMate, "sources" ~/.bashrc (so if ...
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1answer
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How do I enable tab tips in Bash?
I am working under debian squeeze. I always install packages such way:
sudo apt-g(Tab pressed) i(Tab pressed) aria(Tab pressed)
sudo apt-get install aria2
I have installed chroot squeeze to test my ...
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2answers
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bash: execute command given in commandline and don't exit
how do I specifiy a command on the commmandline of bash which shall be executed once inside the new bash after reading ~/.bashrc -- But all this without letting bash exit after the command is ...
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How do I stop automatic changing of iterm tab titles?
After switching to using .bashrc instead of .bash_profile (I didn't like how the default terminal worked with one config file and utilities like screen with another), the behavior of iterm2 changed. ...
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-bash: /home/rb27/.bash_profile: Permission denied
I have tried changing permissions and I have looked for a solution, but the error still exists.In fact it gives me a different error every time I log in.
Could not chdir to home directory /home/rb27: ...
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.bashrc loading aliases from different file
I have a .bashrc file, which I want to setup so it reads aliases from an .aliases file and sets them up.
Currently I have:
# User specific aliases and functions
while read alias_line
do
echo ...
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1answer
92 views
How to check terminal color capability from command line?
I write:
$ infocmp -1 xterm
...
colors#8,
bold=\E[1m,
blink=\E[5m,
...
$ tput -Txterm colors && echo OK || echo err
8
OK
$ tput -Txterm blink && echo OK || echo err
...
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1answer
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“Reset” colors of terminal after ssh exit/logout
When I ssh into a remote server, I like the colors of the terminal to change. I use setterm on my remote ~/.bashrc file to get this done. However, when I exit, the terminal colors are not reset to the ...
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1answer
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Bash Alias Adding a Background Process
In my .bashrc, I want to put something like this.
alias lst='ls &'
So that I can do something like this.
$ lst /tmp
which will be translated into
$ ls /tmp &
How can I do the above?
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Formatting my $PS1 to x amount of character
I'm looking for a way to force my PS1 variable to a certain number of chars.
It currently looks like:
$PS1="\W $"
and I'm trying to keep the same number of characters regardless of the length of ...
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1answer
148 views
How to use cyg-wrapper to fork a new tab in win32 gvim
I would like to set up an alias in my cygwin .bashrc that translates pathnames unix-to-dos and passes them to windows gvim in a new tab of an existing instance. I am trying to use Luc Hermitte's ...
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2answers
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Is it possible to override the command line's built in “cd” command?
Just about every time I 'cd' to a different directory on my machine (in this case, running Mac OS X 10.6.7) via the command line (which is bash), I immediately type 'ls' to get the list of contents in ...
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1answer
314 views
How to change default vi alias in Fedora 14?
In my laptop, if I type below
$ which vi
alias vi='vim'
/usr/bin/vim
Now I want to change the vi alias to another bin, e.g. vim_wrapper a script created in /usr/bin/, I type this line:
alias ...
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2answers
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How to execute python script from console without writing full path?
I have a few python scripts on /usr/share/scripts/ that I use often, and I want to be able to execute them by just writing the name and not the full path, how could I do this?
echo $PATH shows me:
...
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1answer
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Bash: take local .bashrc (or similar) settings to remote boxes w/o putting .bashrc on every instance
I'd like to take my local .bash_rc (with, for example vi keybindings), to various boxes and various users on those boxes?
Some of these settings are very user-specific (I'm the only one who likes ...
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1answer
71 views
Default folder from which commands execute
Once I upgraded to Maverick Ubuntu, bash shell in gnome-terminal starts by default at root rather than my home directory, this was easily fixable by adding a cd command in .bashrc. However, this is ...
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Where's .bashrc for root?
I know it's not best practice, but on my dev system I login as root. What's the equivalent of the .bashrc file so I can alias some functions?
I've found the /etc/bash.bashrc & ...
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1answer
318 views
Bash completion makes bash start slowly
Starting a bash on my ubuntu system takes about 2 seconds.
If I remove loading /etc/bash_completition in .bashrc it starts without delay.
Of course I don't want to give up completition and I don't ...
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2answers
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What's the most reliable way to distinguish local from remote logins in .bashrc?
What's the most reliable way to distinguish local from remote logins in .bashrc?
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2answers
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How to detect ubuntu in a shared bashrc?
I share my .bashrc (all my dotfiles, actually) between ubuntu and archlinux. Since the paths may vary between them, I'd like to run some commands only on ubuntu (and others only on archlinux). How can ...
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2answers
139 views
bash: source from URL
In addition to my own computer, I sometimes use an Ubuntu cluster at my school. Rather than manually keep my .bashrc's in sync, I would like to make the school cluster's .bashrc source my personal ...
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1answer
383 views
Why is shell not reading from Bash startup files
Okay, after several frustrating hours, I am relegated to using this forum again.
I'm just trying to do the simple task of adding my MYSQL directory to the PATH variable so that I can use the mysql, ...
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1answer
75 views
How do I install Z.SH to my Linux?
I want to install Z to my Linux:https://github.com/rupa/z/
Here's the installation notes:
# INSTALL:
# * put something like this in your .bashrc:
# . /path/to/z.sh
# * put something like ...
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I want to make a save command by editing the .bashrc
I found this script http://dotfiles.org/~jacqui/.bashrc.. Basically this is a shortcut for cd-ing my file system..
I can type "save nm" where "nm" is any short name for the directory, like "blog" or ...
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4answers
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Mac OS X .bashrc not working
I have a one-line .bashrc file in my home directory:
alias countlines='find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cat | wc -l'
But it is not creating the alias. Why might that be?
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5answers
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bashrc: how to know X window is available or not?
There is a part in my ~/.bashrc, which sets $EDITOR to be gvim. It works fine when I am in X window. However, if I ssh to my workstation (from another workstation) gvim starts to complain "cannot open ...
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1answer
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Bash profile script order in screen
I have put an echo in three profile scripts that shows the file name so that I can see the order they run.
When I log in I see.
/etc/profile
/etc/profile.d/color-ls
~/.bashrc
/etc/bashrc
$ alias ls
...
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2answers
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How can I change my bash prompt on Ubuntu?
I have one account on an Ubuntu server with the correct PS1 variable and I want to make one of my other accounts on the same server have the same PS1 variable, so that my prompt on this new account ...
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2answers
304 views
.bashrc reports unexpected EOF
I am trying to add some functions to my bashrc, namely:
h () { history | fgrep $1 | sort -u | cut -b 8- }
extract () {
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
case $1 in
*.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
...
3
votes
4answers
230 views
Run parts of .bashrc asynchronously
I have some exports and other things that require another program to run (to get paths or whatever) and they take a non-trivial amount of time to run, meaning my bash startup time is on the order of 5 ...
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2answers
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Is it a good idea to put “screen -r” in my .bashrc?
I'd like to use screen to keep ssh sessions alive on my server. It would be nice if I could automatically resume any running session for my user when I log in. The straightforward way to do this would ...
3
votes
1answer
273 views
Bash shell: how to reconcile portable configuration files and GUI terminal start-up types (login or interactive)?
In an attempt to "properly" implement a standard configuration of my preferred shell, bash, for use across multiple platforms, I've come across some confusion when dealing with terminals that are ...
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2answers
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Why is there a dot in front of .bashrc
I have been trying to figure this out for a while now, pretty simple question for some I can only guess, but why is there a 'dot' in front of .bashrc?
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Open gnome terminal programmatically and execute commands after bashrc was executed
For starting my dev environment I wrote a little script. One part is to open a gnome terminal with several tabs where automatically some commands should be executed. Some of those commands depend on ...
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1answer
333 views
How to escape commands in a bashrc alias?
I need to occasionally touch a file with the current timestamp as the filename.
I would do so this way:
touch `date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M"`.txt
However, I'd like to define an alias for this. When I try ...
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vote
4answers
464 views
How do I only display the base dir in my Ubuntu Terminal?
In Ubuntu 10.04 Terminal when I traverse into some long directory structure the entire path gets displayed, this leads to lot of space wastage on my terminal, where the cursor comes way over to the ...
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1answer
248 views
Problems with bash path when using 'su'
In Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, I'm trying to do
su -l user -c "foo.sh args"
where foo.sh is an executable bash script on the PATH set in ~user/.bashrc. Unfortunately, this fails because it can't find ...
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3answers
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.bashrc file adds a couple of tens of spaces to the prompt
I got myself a .bashrc file off the net. I checked it beforehand, didn't detect anything bad about it.
One thing that's odd about it, is that several spaces are added to the terminal command line.
...
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3answers
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Difference between .bashrc and .bash_profile
What's the difference between them and which one should I use?
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2answers
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gnome-terminal: how to preserve symlinks of working directory when opening new tab?
If I'm using gnome-terminal in a working directory whose path includes symlinks and I open a new tab, the symlinks will be expanded to their destinations in the working directory of the new tab.
Is ...
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4answers
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Bash prompt: how to have the initials of directory path
I normally have just the name of the current directory in my bash prompt (PS1='\u@\h:\W$ '), so if I am in ~/projects/superapp/src/ I get:
hamish@host:src$
However I'd like to have an indication ...
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3answers
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Linux - bash not loading .profile in new session
I'm setting up a new Linux machine I got from out IT dept, and noticed .profile is not loaded when I start a new terminal session. The current shell is bash, though I changed it from the default sh it ...
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2answers
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running .bashrc versus new login
I added new alias into .bashrc
Running .bashrc doesn't create that alias but new log in yes.
Could you somebody explain why is that so and how I can test if the new .bashrc works without doing test ...
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What does the 'rc' in `.bashrc`, etc. mean?
Well, this is embarrassing. I feel like I just realised I don't know a loyal colleague's name after working with them for 10 years. "Hey, er... *cough!*, thanks for that great job you did on setting ...
