Re: [SLUG] A bash question

From: Brian Coyle (brianc@magicnet.net)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 23:45:06 EDT


Kai Lien wrote:
>
> You do not have to log out to re-parse the .bashrc or .bash_profile. All
> you need is to re-source them after the chanages. Actually, in Red Hat,
> you just need to source the .bash_profile since the latter script runs
> .bashrc also.
>
> Example:
> #in your home dir
>
> vi .bash_profile
>
> #save the changes such as adding new aliases
>
> source .bash_profile
>
> #there is no need to log-out
>

You do have to be careful with what you do in your ~/.bash_profile
when re-sourcing...

As a minor example:

        PATH=$PATH:/some/other/dir

can result in duplicate entries in the $PATH.

-- 
"We choose to go to the moon, and do the other things...
 Not because they are easy, but because they are hard." -JFK



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