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Icarus Sparry  
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 More options Sep 9 2012, 2:10 pm
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From: Icarus Sparry <i.sparry...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:10:29 GMT
Local: Sun, Sep 9 2012 2:10 pm
Subject: Re: .bash_profile modification
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:51:09 -0700, ritchie31 wrote:
> Hello Forum.
> I modified my .bash_profile by adding a welcome message and showing me
> the data time as I saw in an example.

> # .bash_profile

> # This only runs on user login echo ""
> echo -n "Welcome to Linux, "; whoami echo ""
> echo -n "Today is "; date "+%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S"
> echo ""
> cal

> # This loads in the configuration in .bashrc # Put all configuration
> there!

> # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
>         . ~/.bashrc
> fi

> # User specific environment and startup programs

> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin

> export PATH

> However every time I start the terminal It does not show me the messages
> I configured on it.
> Is it anything wrong on it?. I changed the attributes to chmod 777
> .bash_profile

> Thanks

The most likely reason is that your "terminal" is not announcing that it
is a "login" window.

If you read the manual for bash, you will see it reads different files
depending on how it is invoked.

Try running
        xterm -ls
or
        gnome-terminal -e bash --login

If you are using gnome-terminal, then you can change the preferences
associated with a profile to say it should be considered a login window.
           xterm -ls


 
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