All of my terminals ignore the settings in .bashrc (such as coloured outpul of ls).
try this: echo 'echo profile' > ~/.bash_profile echo 'echo rc' > ~/.bashrc then launch a new terminal ... if profile is run, then nothing is wrong ... just put this into your .bash_profile: [ -e ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc
Sorry, that didn't help. The contents of my bash_profile was: PS1="[\u@\h \W]\$" [ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc Here's my .bashrc incase that's needed: # Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/skel/.bashrc,v 1.5 2002/08/07 18:13:35 azarah Exp $ # This file is sourced by all *interactive* bash shells on startup. This # file *should generate no output* or it will break the scp and rcp commands. # colors for ls, etc. eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS` alias d="ls --color" alias ls="ls --color=auto" alias ll="ls --color -l" # Change the window title of X terminals case $TERM in xterm*|rxvt|eterm) PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"' ;; screen) PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\033\\"' ;; esac ##uncomment the following to activate bash-completion: [ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ] && source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion
1) Check that you have a valid shell (should be /bin/bash if you want to use .bashrc) in /etc/passwd, else it will default to /bin/sh, which wont use .bashrc. 2) Consider changing the preferences of the terminal you use to act as a 'login shell'.
Yes, it was defaulting to sh (even though the propmt said bash!) and changing the terminals to a login shell got it working. Many thanks!
