Further to my last post about bash, it really bugs me having to
`exec bash` because my .
bashrc isn't being executed when I login. After changing my shell to
/bin/bash I was able to get a useful command prompt thanks to the various defaults in place and moved on. But when I run
dir (no, I can't
just ls -l nor
ll like normal people) I get the same horizontal
ls lameness, not the
dir='ls -l --color' goodness that I expect.
I found
this thread which showed the solution for my Ubuntu box. So I put
source ~/.bashrc
into my .bash_profile and now when I su to the account I get my environment exactly as I configured it.
Factoid: It turns out (man pages ftw) that bash's default is to ignore any
.bashrc file if it is being executed as "
sh", so even if
/bin/sh is symlinked to
/bin/bash the script won't be run as I assumed it would.
