I want to play around my .bashrc file, but I can't seem to find a general guide to customizing it. I just want a guide that will show me examples and explain them in-depth.
Does anyone where to find one?
Does anyone know of a intentionally comprehensive in-dept guide?
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$ source ../../someDir/sub.bashrc
the sub.bashrc should set a variable like
export MyOwnLocation=/home/user1/unknownlocation/someDir
The problem is I can't use $0 as reference because the script is only sourced not executed. I also don't want to hardcode the path because the location might change and there will be more copies. Is there an easy way to create this information from within the the sourced bashrc file? I use Gnu bash 2.05b on Suse Linux 9.
attending class in the Redhat Academy Website. I was wondering how can you join the two commands of cd/usr & ls successfully in the .bashrc file?
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Here is my script
count=20
while [ $count -gt 0 ];do
sleep 1
echo Press ESC to break the operation
((count=count-1))
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I have installed a software and set the variables in the .bashrc file to avoid setting them everytime I would like to run te software. Now I have installed a new software and would like to do the same thing in the .bashrc file.How can I add the path to the new software directory without affecting the first software path.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI tried following the example from here (http:url]......)Open up publicity.html for reading and writing by anyone.
Before: -rw-r--r-- publicity.html
Command: chmod og=rw publicity.html
After: -rw-rw-rw- publicity.html
Here's my terminal session:
username@ubuntu:/etc$ -rw-r--r-- bash.bashrc
-rw-r--r--: command not found
username@ubuntu:/etc$ chmod og=rw bash.bashrc[code]....
If I want to modify my .bashrc file to change the HISTSIZE would the following command be for example; HISTSIZE=200? And if I want to change the DEBUG_LEVEL to 8 would the following command be; DEBUG_LEVEL=8?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI am using Ubuntu 9.10. I was installing network simulator 2. After installation I get the following message.
Please put /home/administrator/Downloads/ns-allinone-2.34/bin:/home/administrator/Downloads/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/unix:/home/administrator/Downloads/ns-allinone-2.34/tk8.4.18/unix
into your PATH environment; so that you'll be able to run itm/tclsh/wish/xgraph.
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My friend suggested that it is something to do with .bashrc file. I fund files like .bash.bashrc.
When I add some path in .bashrc by commenting out old path and adding new one like this:
#EXPORT HOME_PLAY=/home/gem/old_play
EXPORT HOME_PLAY=/home/gem/play
EXPORT PATH=$PATH:HOME_PLAY
After saving above changes, I enter the command: source ~/.bashrc Now if I do echo $PATH, the path shows both the old PLAY_HOME and new PLAY_HOME. This is really bad and messes up a lot of things in my project. This problem only goes away if I logout or reboot, a rather very long process. What is happening is that the old path is added to new path element and the old path includes the old path element you want to remove.
recently I did some changes to my bashrc file the changes are as follows
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre<version>/bin/
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jre<version>/bin
now I'm unable even login to the OS.
I am having a lil headache with it.
Some time ego i edited my /etc/bashrc file to add some aliases and colours for my ssh console.
Today i had a need to change few thing but for some reason i can't edit or delete this file any more.
I am logged as root.
rm bashrc
cannot remove, operation not permitted
chown and/or chmod fails as well with "not permitted" errors.
ls -Al | grep bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2514 mar 31 13:05 bashrc
Any ideas what's going on?
how come I can create a shell script file with two functions, I can execute the file, but when running declare -f, the functions are not on memory, and when invoking the function bash returns invalid. In the other hand, I can copy & paste the two functions at the end of my /etc/bashrc file.... then I can called the function by name.... and the commands within that function run on my session. here is a print of all my bash packets:
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Does Fedora has restrictions on shell scripting? I haven't touch bash in seven years, so if things have change on it I'm behind on it, and sorry for my ignorance.
I have a Linux system, RH Enterpise 5, that I must toggle between two different languages, one being English, but when I am in English mode I only want to get capital letters for my user programs. I can't use the Caps-lock key, because then the default key to toggle between the languages no longer works when Caps-lock is on and I need to be able to switch back and forth languages with a single key stroke. So, I need capital English letters but mixed case second language characters and a single key to toggle between the two. I can't figure out a solution for this. I have tried different mods to xmodmap, but can't solve it for both languages.Oh, slight correction, the default keys for toggling languages Alt-R and Alt-L are fine, just need upper case in English mode.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI want something like
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export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros:$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
to be done already for me when I open a new terminal. How do I edit the .bashrc so that this variable is always set already?
How do you set the bash_history size when using the .bashrc file and setting the "HISTSIZE=9000" doesn't work?
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Warning: Your PATH does not point to your newly installed /home/pc/Reflex/software/bin/esorex.
To ensure execution of the newly installed software you should modify your PATH.
Note that "esorex" is the executable file and by typing its name in the Terminal the program starts.
What should I write in my "bashrc" as PATH to that program?
I have the following as my $PROMPT_COMMAND in .bashrc:
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PROMPT_COMMAND='
if [ $TERM = "screen" ]; then
MYPWD="${PWD/#$HOME/~}"
[ ${#MYPWD} -gt 20 ] && MYPWD=..${MYPWD:${#MYPWD}-18}
echo -n -e "33k$MYPWD33\"
fi
'
I am trying to append items to my PROMPT_COMMAND in another script/on command line. If I do the following:
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I get no error. I've echoed the value of $PROMPT_COMMAND in both cases and their output is exactly the same.
I'd like a function in my .bashrc file that would allow me to pass text to it and echo the text to a specified file. I know it's simple as "echo 'text' >> file," but ideally, I would want to alias the function so I execute something like:
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user~ $ write 'this is a test' with "write" being the function, and 'this is a test' being echoed to the file. I hope I explained that well enough.
A cluster with a head node and compute nodes. An application with a couple of env variables (App_HOME, PATH) set in .profile (default shell sh). If I login to the head node/compute nodes on a terminal everything works fine. The correct env variables are set and the application works. However, when my application tries to do it, say ssh <compute node1> <application>, it appears the environment variables are not available. It only looks in the minimal /bin, /usr/bin type PATH. This tells that the .profile is not being read
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in order to install OpenFOAM, I need to
> source ~/.bashrc
but I get an error file or directory not found...