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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <anmcguire@ce.mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: bash aliases, and an X question
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008162221330.6991-100000@hawk.ce.mediaone.net> 
References: <8nfflb$aa5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> 
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:29:09 -0500

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Hammer quoth:

~~ Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 01:37:49 GMT
~~ From: Hammer <hammer2k@my-deja.com>
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: bash aliases, and an X question
~~ 
~~ I'm dumb, please don't hold that against me :)

[ snip ]

We all can be.

~~ Q1)  I have some aliases and exported paths and such in my .bashrc and
~~ .bash_profile.  Out of X, it all works.  Everytime I go into X, I lose
~~ it all.  How can that be??  Bash is bash, right?  Any tips??  I did
~~ update my XFree from 3.3* to 4.0... I probably butchered some .x* config
~~ file, but I both fail to see why my bash environment is not carried into
~~ X, and why it's not repeated in X if the former occurs.  Same profile
~~ files... any ideas what I'm doing wrong?? Thanks.

Put the line:

. ./.bash_profile # Or .bashrc or .profile or whatever

in your .xinitrc file.

After that 'ln -s .xinitrc .xsession', incase you use a display
manager, which you probably do.

~~ Q2)  bash aliases... is there a command separator for aliases??  So I
~~ could have an alias do multiple things... like a carrot or something -
~~ 
~~ pushd^cd /var/log^pico boot.log &^popd

; 

anm@hawk:~$ alias hello="echo hello; echo world"
anm@hawk:~$ hello
hello
world

[ snip ]

~~ If anyone remembers the old 4DOS command shell for DOS, it used the
~~ carrot as a command separator, and you could make some killer aliases.

I am glad I missed it! :-)

anm
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~ Andrew N. McGuire                                                      ~
~ anmcguire@ce.mediaone.net                                              ~
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