[aklug] Re: Goofy/basic bash_profile question

On Friday 07 December 2007, Larry Collier said something like:
> 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=3DBLOB
>
> env
>
> and COLLIE=3DBLOB was there.

Yeah, I tried putting those in both .bashrc and .bash_profile. Neither=20
took...so weird.

j

>
> larry
> off-list email if you have a question this weekend is
> lcollier@clearwire.net
>
> 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=3D20 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=3D20 adding them to both .bashrc and .bash_profile, and they
> > will *NOT* show=3D20 up in either a direct console login nor in a KDE
> > Konsole session. I=3D20 haven't a clue what's going on.
> >
> > Even when I invoke "bash -" or "bash --login" at the prompt, the
> > new=3D20 shell still does not have the environment variables in it.=20
> > Yes, I'm=3D20 using the standard
> >
> > export NAME=3D3D'value'
> >
> > syntax.
> >
> > This is Kubuntu 7.10, BTW, with bash 3.2.25
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > j
> >
> > =3D2D-=3D20
> > Joshua Kugler
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Received on Sat Dec 8 11:24:38 2007