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Questions tagged [bash-profile]

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Completely restart Bash

Is there a way to completely restart Bash and reload .bashrc and .profile and the like? I'd like to make sure my changes worked out properly after editing these files.
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Set up .bash_profile and .bashrc for local and remote access

I've noticed that when I open a terminal on my ubuntu machine locally, it sources .bashrc, but when I connect via ssh, it sources .bash_profile. I added a line in .bashrc to source .bash_profile so I have both files sources when working locally. I'd…
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sudo not executing bashrc as expected

Overall issue is when I log in, my prompt appears correctly formatted as per the /etc/bashrc but when I sudo to another user using bash, the prompt gets fubar'd. Essential formatting in the /etc/bashrc PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "\033]0;%s@%s:%s\007"…
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Why is my .profile export being ignored?

I have the following at the end of my .profile file on Ubuntu 18.04: export PATH=$PATH:/home/tom/Desktop/PACS/moos-ivp/bin export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/tom/Programs/or-tools_Ubuntu-18.04-64bit_v7.2.6977/lib export…
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execute profile files at sftp login

My Debian server is configured to jail the users in ther home directory after login with sftp (that works). Now im trying to execute a profile for the user. I was thinking sftp is a non-login shell and should execute the files: /etc/profile.. ->…
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Is it a good practice to make different configuration files as symlinks to some scripts under the same directory?

I was wondering if it is a good practice to make the following configuration files as symlinks to some scripts under a directory e.g. ~/program_files/configurations/. The scripts /etc/rc.local, /etc/profile, ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc…
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What license does ~/.profile fall under?

On Unix & Linux, what license governs usage rights for the '.profile' file? Also what entity can be questioned about compliance?
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brew is not found when I sshpass to the server

brew is installed on the server but when I sshpass to the server, it throws bash: brew: command not found and same is happening for ideviceinstaller bash: ideviceinstaller: command not found This is the command I'm using sshpass -p password ssh…
Ram
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CWD and filepath string get automatically concatenated in launchctl calls

I am currently trying to write a function for my bash profile which causes an OSX LaunchAgent passed as argument to restart. It might be a bit pointless but for one I want to stop having to write long paths for launchctl un/load I have got almost…
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How to only run a command in .bash_profile if its not already running?

Goal: Run socat only once. I'm trying to expose docker web services via TCP. On macOS/linux these services are bound to a unix socket. The following command accomplishes the task: socat -d TCP-LISTEN:2376,range=127.0.0.1/32,reuseaddr,fork…
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Confused about Configuring Linux Path Environment /etc/profile.d/*.sh being Executed Twice?

I am trying to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to CentOS here are the code I tried export |grep PKG_CONFIG_PATH no output, normal... echo "$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" :/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig why there is output here?? and if I sudo sh -c "echo 'export…
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Fedora 29: not reading changes in .bash_profile

I have added some aliases and functions to the .bash_profile but they are not available when I start a new Command Line Prompt. Neither they are available after a reboot. I need to execute a 'source ~/.bash_profile' each time. So, I have added into…
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none of command works after trying to add ~/.bash_profile

I was trying to add JAVA_HOME in the path variable. I downloaded Java JDK and done following: nano ~/.bash_profile added following lines and saved the file: export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home) export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin=$PATH source…
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Customize bash looks for user profile on debian 9

I am trying to customize the bash prompt on Linux Debian 9. I got the script from Github and I modified the file .bashrc On the terminal, when I log in as root, I can see the customization I was looking for, but once I exit to the normal user, all…
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Role of export -f statement when creating functions in bash_profile

I came across a bash_profile file that makes use of the export -f statement in the following manner: # Run xelatex and BibTeX function xelatex_bibtex { xelatex -shell-escape "${1}.tex" && bibtex "${1}" && xelatex -shell-escape…
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