Questions tagged [bashrc]
bashrc is one of the scripts the Bash shell reads as `.bashrc` and executes when started as an interactive (but not login) shell.
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Difference between .bashrc and .bash_profile
What's the difference between .bashrc and .bash_profile and which one should I use?
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What does the 'rc' in `.bashrc`, etc. mean? [duplicate]
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 ...
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Bash if on single line
I would like to know how can I write if conditions inside a bash script on a single line.
For example, how can I write this on a single line, and then put another one just like it on the next?
if [ -...
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Show only current directory name (not full path) on bash prompt
The way my bash prompt is currently configured, it shows the whole path to the current directory. This is annoying when I'm deep inside a directory tree, as the prompt becomes so long that every ...
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How do I modify my Git Bash profile in Windows?
I'm using Git Bash on Windows 7 and would like to set up Bash profile aliases such as alias gs='git status' to make my life easier. How can I do this?
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What is the .bashrc file?
Unix shells when starting read the .bashrc file and execute commands written in it. What is this file and what does it execute?
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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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Is there windows equivalent to the .bashrc file in linux?
Just discovered doskey emacs=emacs -nw $*, but without something like .bashrc, I'll have to type that every time I start a shell, right?
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iTerm/zsh not reading .bashrc OR .bash_profile
In ~/.bash_profile
I have :
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
In ~/.bashrc I have some aliases
When I load a new iTerm window, my aliases do not work. If I source ~/.bashrc they ...
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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 & /etc/bash.bashrc....
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Environment variables in bash_profile or bashrc?
I have found this question [blog]: Difference between .bashrc and .bash_profile very useful but after seeing the most voted answer (very good by the way) I have further questions. Towards the end of ...
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MinGW Bash profile
I use MinGW on Windows 7. I have a .bashrc with some aliases in it. The file is in my home folder which is where MinGW starts me in, so it also believes that the folder is my home folder. It does not ...
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Linux: coloring bash prompt will break 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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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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Bash not loading '.profile' in new session on Linux
I'm setting up a new Linux machine I got from our 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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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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No bashrc file in my home directory
Here is what I noted down from my lecture:
Find file .bashrc in your home directory
do vi .bashrc
When you put an application folder somewhere, make sure that its address is in the
path variable.
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Why are alias names defined in .bashrc file are not working as expected?
I have give alias names in .bashrc file like below. But the alias names are not working. why?
alias c='clear'
alias l='ls -lt'
alias h='history'
alias d='ls -lt |grep "^d"'
export ORACLE_HOME=/...
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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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Bash is slow to start because of this line in .bashrc. What could cause this?
My .bashrc file contains a line to this effect:
alias prog="/path/to/script.sh $(find $(pwd) -name prog)"
When I comment out this line, Bash starts almost instantly when I open a new terminal. With ...
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What's the difference between /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc? Which one should I use?
When should I use each of the two .bashrc files to set my aliases, prompt, etc?
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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 ...
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overriding user defined functions with the same name as system commands
This function exists in one of my users' ~/.bashrc:
function rm()
{
ls $*
echo "rm?"
read ans
if [ "$ans" == 'y' ]; then
/bin/rm $*
fi
}
In my ...
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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 finished?...
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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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Bash prompt to change color when I am logged into a server
Is there a way to make the bash prompt dynamic, so that it changes color when logged into a server?
So I want the like the color to be green when on my system and change to red when connected to ...
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Bash, how to globally fix ^H and ^? backspace problems
I'd like to fix this frequent problem where the shell on a remote server thinks my terminal's backspace key is ^? and sometimes it thinks it is ^H, and happens to be incorrect and outputs the wrong ...
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Putty solarized the manual way
I would like to use the solarized color scheme in PuTTY. The tricky part is I don't have administrator privileges in this machine. So I will have to manually change the default colors through Change ...
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How to persist bash history?
I don't know if this is expected, but my history is not saved across sessions. This is to say, if I close the window, then when I open it again, the history is empty. How can I persist it across ...
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What does . .bashrc actually do?
When I enter a eg. a new alias into my .bashrc file I can't use it in that terminal window immediately and until recently I thought I had to restart the terminal to reload the .bashrc file. Then I ...
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`ssh <host>` is a login shell, but `ssh <host> <command>` is not?
I've noticed that when I run a command directly on an SSH host using the ssh <host> <command> syntax, I see the output of .bashrc but not the output of .bash_profile (or .profile).
For ...
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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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Find out where $PATH is defined
I recently installed an Arch-Linux System. If I type
echo $PATH
it points (among others) to a directory inside my /home/user/dir I can remember I set up somewhere. I have it as root user also, so ...
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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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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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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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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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How to benchmark bashrc / zshrc and prompt rendering time?
As im currently experimenting with new stuff in my prompt i need a way to tell what the performance impact is.
How can i monitor how long it takes to render my prompt and the time it takes to source ...
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Why do people source bash_profile from bashrc instead of the other way round?
It sounds like most terminal emulators don't run local sessions as login by default, so they'll load bashrc rather than bash_profile. So why do most people put everything in bash_profile and have ...
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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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Cygwin .bashrc not being source because cygwin starting in Windows home
NOTE: Please see my second edit below for an update on the problem.
Cygwin was working fine for me until last week. Now .bashrc isn't getting sourced. I must have installed something or changed ...
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Which bash rc files are run on non-interactive/non-login shells?
My Understanding
there are no rc files called for non-interactive/non-login shells; for example, those run by cron
(I don't know this for certain and would lean on the community's expertise)
non-...
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How does one define aliases for use within MobaXTerm *local* bash shell?
I have been using MobaXterm for the last couple of weeks in Windows and I love it.
However, I haven't quite figured out how to define my own aliases for use within the local bash shell. The obvious ...
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Does .bashrc contain syntax errors?
In the Ubuntu 18.04 LT .bashrc file there is the following:
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac
Isn't xterm-...
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Restoring ~/.bashrc without using bash commands
I think I had a typo when I add a path to ~/.bashrc and after I source it, I cannot use bash commands anymore.
Now I want to restore a normal ~/.bashrc, however most of the discussion I found (e.g. ...
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Can I make bash stop parsing and validating a certain alias?
I'm using Fedora 25, and have added the following alias to my bash profile:
alias releasenotes="dnf updateinfo --refresh info `dnf check-update | cut -d '.' -f 1 | xargs` | less"
(I can't use ...
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How do I permanently set my bashrc changes?
Everytime I log into SSH, I have to manually source the bashrc file to set my path variables the way I want to. How do I have bash do it automatically? Shouldn't it be automatic?
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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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Adding git branch to bash prompt on snow leopard
I am using this:
$(__git_ps1 '(%s)')
It works however it does not update when I change directories or checkout a new branch. I also have this alias:
alias reload='. ~/.bash_profile'
Sample run:
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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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