bash as default shell

[Mike Hoy]

$ .bashrc
-bash: /home/dio/.bashrc: Permission denied

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I could be wrong about this but I think it explains your quandry.  See
> below:
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> my hard drive has /home on a different partition
>> it was failing fsck and to simplify I backed up my /home contents to a
>> backup hdd and then set it up again
>>
>> how to I use 'bash' when /etc/shells already shows me using /bin/bash?
>>
>> vim /home/dio/.bashrc
>> alias clearl="clear && ls -l"
>> ~$ clearl
>> -bash: clearl: command not found
>> in terminal
>
> Since you did not source your new .bashrc, your current shell does not know
> about the change.  You needed to do ". .bashrc" without the quotes.
>>
>> ~$ echo $SHELL
>> /bin/bash
>>
>> so I change to bash anyway:
>> ~$ bash
>> ~$ clearl  (works fine)
>
> Since you started a new shell with explicitly running bash, that bash
> re-initialized and saw your alias so it worked.
>>
>> I've done this:
>>
>> chsh -s /bin/bash
>> password ***
>> no luck
>
> This is less clear what all you did in between, but if you are still in the
> original terminal and its shell, you still have not re-sourced .bashrc for
> that running shell
>>
>> but I can type bash manually and I'm goold
>>
>> ~$ echo $PATH
>>
>> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/dio/sh:/home/dio/
>>
>>
>> cat ~/.bashrc
>> alias clearl="clear && ls -l"
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>> --
>> Mike Hoy
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