[aklug] Re: Goofy/basic bash_profile question

Joshua,

According to the note at the top of my .bashrc this file applies only to
noninteractive logins. .bash_profile for interactive ones.

I just now entered:

export COLLIE=BLOB

env

and COLLIE=BLOB was there.

larry
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On Friday 07 December 2007 18:20:04 Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> I've read the bash man page (about .bashrc, .bash_profile, when they are=20
> executed, etc), and I still don't know what's going on.
>
> I'm trying to set up some environment variables at login, and I've tried=20
> adding them to both .bashrc and .bash_profile, and they will *NOT* show=20
> up in either a direct console login nor in a KDE Konsole session. I=20
> haven't a clue what's going on.
>
> Even when I invoke "bash -" or "bash --login" at the prompt, the new=20
> shell still does not have the environment variables in it. Yes, I'm=20
> using the standard
>
> export NAME=3D'value'
>
> syntax.
>
> This is Kubuntu 7.10, BTW, with bash 3.2.25
>
> Any ideas?
>
> j
>
> =2D-=20
> Joshua Kugler
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Received on Fri Dec 7 18:54:29 2007