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

[Mike Hoy]

That's cool I got it all working now, just had to remove what I typed
at the bottom of it and it let me login

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:28 AM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
>> Am 24. Okt, 2008 schwätzte Mike Hoy so:
>>
>>> I edited this file and put echo cat
>>> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature >> .bashrc at the end of it.
>>
>> You put the echo command in your .bashrc?
>>
>> If so, move your .bashrc to some other name, for example:
>>
>> mv -i .bashrc .bashrc.horked
>>
>> You might need to run that as root if you can't login as you.
>>
>> You probably have lots of extra information at the end of your .bashrc
>> file and they're causing your login to fail.
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
>> --
>
> Mike, the reason der Hans says this is that the "echo cat ... >>
> .bashrc" was not meant to be put into the .bashrc file but rather as a
> command to append the "cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature"
> line to .bashrc.  By putting the echo line into .bashrc, you append
> the cat line every time .bashrc is used thereby borking/horking the
> file.  So Hans is having you get that file out of the way so it can be
> replaced or rebuilt.
>
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Mike Hoy
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