Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile

[Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Kevin Layer wrote:
> That was one of the experiments I did, and I saw no evidence that any
> commands were executed.  I even passed it as the argument to the
> invocation.
>
> As for the assumption, I understand that an error could have
> short-circuited the processing of my init file, but in the bash's that
> haven't read it,
>
>    . .bashrc
>
> produces no errors *and* has my aliases and new prompt.

$HOME/.bashrc isn't always read.  It depends on how bash is executed.
If this is a --login you need $HOME/.bash_profile that sources
$HOME/.bashrc.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Startup-Files.html#Bash-Startup-Files

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