Can I add a command in bash that starts when I open it?

[Mike Hoy]

Oh and I forgot to mention that I also installed computertemp through
synaptic and open office through apt-get before logging off. This is
Ubuntu.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I edited this file and put echo cat
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature >> .bashrc at the end of it.
> Then I noticed that each time I opened a command prompt it kept the
> temperature reading from the last command prompt so after a while I
> had several temperatures echo'ing out when I opened it. So I removed
> the line and logged off. When I tried to log back in I got this
> message:
>
> Your session only lasted less then 10 seconds. If you have not logged
> out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem
> or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the
> failsafe sessions to see if you can fix the problem.
>
> View details (~/.xsession-errors file)
>
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> /etc/profile: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
>
> I then CTRL ALT F1 and log in.
>
> The temperature echoes out several times.
>
> I did: sudo nano /etc/profile and looked for anything that doesn't
> belong but it looks good. The last line in it says: umask 022 which
> was there before I started messing around. Anything I can do to fix
> this?
>
>> Simple. Add that command to your .bashrc file. Some shells use .profile
>> instead. Play around with that.
>>
>> echo cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature >> .bashrc
>>
>> nathan
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