oh man
thanks!
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Matt Graham <
danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
> From: Mike Hoy <mhoy06@gmail.com>
>> $ .bashrc
>> -bash: /home/dio/.bashrc: Permission denied
>> dio@eutopia:~$ ls -l .bashrc
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 dio mhoy06 30 2010-10-05 23:23 .bashrc
> [snip]
>
> .bashrc is not meant to be executed. It's meant to be *sourced*. You do
> "source .bashrc" or ". .bashrc" to make the currently-running shell read in
> environment variable settings, aliases, functions, and stuff like that. So
> when you change .bashrc, you do "source .bashrc" so that whatever you changed
> will get picked up.
>
> Dazed_75 already said this, but I'm saying it again.
>
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