From: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: alias retention
3 May 1998 17:58:15 -0700
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To: "Mark A." <mallen@gate.net>
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You need to:

SET HOME=<directory where .bashrc is>

Then executing just executing bash will read the .bashrc file.



---"Mark A." <mallen@gate.net> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to get aliases to be retained by the bash shell at
startup?
> I read the 'set -i ?' command makes the bashshell interactive 
allowing
> bash to read a .bashrc file (that I would like to put aliases, etc.
> However either I'm not issuing the -i command in the correct syntax or
> something as bash doesn't seem to be getting any info from the .bashrc
> file.  In any case my aliases are lost after each session.  Can
anybody
> help?
> 
> Mark
> 
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