problems with .bashrc

knekten · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 22 Location: Sweden

uhu, problems again :p
this time i can't get the aliases i put in the .bashrc file to work. the location on the file is /home/user/.bashrc

i've added this line:

alias ls='ls --color=always'

now, shouldn't bash list all files n directories in color? is it something i've forgotten? or is there something else i need to do to get it work?

oh, i forgot to tell: my install is gentoo 1.2 with the stage3 tarball =)

Technetium · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 10:04 pm Post subject:

Did you
> source .bashrc
after updating your .bashrc file?

Technetium · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 10:06 pm Post subject:

Yup. Worked for me.

knekten · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 22 Location: Sweden

yup, now it works for me too =)
thanks

vers_iq · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 264

If im not mistaken, ~/.bashrc will not be seen by bash but ~/.bash_profile. So everytime ~/.bashrc in modified we will not see the effect until we tell bash to look at it by command "source". To make matter easier i add this line: