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

[Lisa Kachold]

Be sure to patch it for the recent RPC Buffer Overflow announced yesterday (or take the preliminary workaround to turn off the services).

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms08-067.mspx

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> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:56:26 -0700
> From: mhoy06 at gmail.com
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Can I add a command in bash that starts when I open it?
> 
> Thanks I'll give this a try when I get home from work. Stuck on
> windoze box at work.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> > Yes,
> >
> > Just add it to the end of your .bash_profile
> > Should you want ALL USERS to have these great functions you create, you
> > would edit the /etc/profile (optimally /etc/profile.local since the regular
> > /etc/profile global profile file will be updated with patches, etc.  yet the
> > local file is for optimizations.
> >
> > Here's what it looks like when you can define it:
> >
> > function temp( ) { cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature; }
> >
> > Here's some other great .bash_profile (or .bashrc) toys:
> >
> > function calc() { echo "$*" | bc; }
> > function mktar() { tar czf "${1%%/}.tar.gz" "${1%%/}/"; }
> > function mkmine() { sudo chown -R ${USER} ${1:-.}; }
> >
> > function newmail()
> > {
> >     tot=0
> >     for mb in $MAIL/*; do
> >         cnt=`ls -1 $mb/new/|wc -l`
> >         tot=`expr $tot + $cnt`
> >         echo "$(basename $mb):$cnt"
> >     done
> >     echo "Total:$tot"
> > }
> >
> > # sanitize - set file/directory owner and permissions to normal values
> > (644/755)
> > # Usage: sanitize <file>
> > sanitize() {
> >     chmod -R u=rwX,go=rX "$@"
> >     chown -R ${USER}.users "$@"
> > }
> >
> > then the last line would be where you invoke it:
> > temp
> >
> > Reference:
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-q-and-a-starting.html
> >
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> > ________________________________
> > ________________________________
> >> From: nathan at paysonlinux.org
> >> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >> Subject: Re: Can I add a command in bash that starts when I open it?
> >> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:36:26 -0700
> >>
> >> On Thursday 23 October 2008 22:16:46 Mike Hoy wrote:
> >> > Just out of curiosity can I have a command execute when I open command
> >> > line?
> >> >
> >> > Thought I would have:
> >> >
> >> > cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
> >> >
> >> > start up each time I opened it so I could check my temperature
> >> > regularly.
> >> >
> >> > I searched for the answer and the closest answer I got was putting it
> >> > in /etc/rc.local, but that didn't work.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Mike Hoy
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> >>
> >>
> >> 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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