I'm using Mountain Lion on one machine. I have an alias set up with .bashrc that is handy to use. I enable that .bashrc by doing "source .bashrc". It works. Um, for a while. Then it doesn't work, and I have to "source" it again. On other machines, once I "source" my .bashrc, it sticks. What am I doing wrong?
Mac mini, OS X 10.11
In your ~/.bash_profile, use this line:
[[ -s ~/.bashrc ]] && source ~/.bashrc
Every time you launch the Terminal the contents of ~/.bashrc will be applied to the current Terminal session.
If you make changes to your ~/.bashrc in the current Terminal session then you can do either of:
source ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bash_profile
In your ~/.bash_profile, use this line:
[[ -s ~/.bashrc ]] && source ~/.bashrc
Every time you launch the Terminal the contents of ~/.bashrc will be applied to the current Terminal session.
If you make changes to your ~/.bashrc in the current Terminal session then you can do either of:
source ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bash_profile
There are conditions where the Bash shell will read the ~/.bashrc file directly. In the Terminal, do the following and press return:
man bash
enter a forward slash and type INVOCATION and press return. Press the lowercase letter n three times until you see INVOCATION flush left in the man page. Read the associated paragraphs about Bash dot files.
OK, putting [[ -s ~/.bashrc ]] && source ~/.bashrc in my
.bashrc_profile seemed to work in my Monterey system.
But I have a Mountain Lion system where it did NOT work.
What seemed to work there was just to put source .bashrc
in my ~/.profile file. Does that make sense?
Reread my post. It did not state place [[ -s ~/.bashrc ]] && source ~/.bashrc in your ~/.bashrc file, and those choices for source are done in the Terminal external to either ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile.
Sorry. I've now placed it in ~/.bashrc_profile, like you said. I'll hope for the best. Now, curiously, that line isn't in my /bashrc_profile on other machines, and I don't have that trouble with them.
Thanks. But if I put that line in my .bashrc file, and "source" it, the system just hangs. Do you mean that, with that line, I need not "source" it at all?
keeping my .bashrc active