Re: bash and bashrc...

Create a .bash_profile with:

. ~/.bashrc

And that should solve your problem.

Best,

John

On 22/04/2012 15:10, Insomniactoo wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
>   I've made up (actually it's a stolen very small part of an bashrc I found on 
> my openSUSE partition that I like a heck of a lot) a small bashrc.
>
>   I saved it in my /home dir as a hidden file as .bashrc
>
>   Unfortunately it's not being read or used by bash.
>
>   Where should I put this thing or label it to have bash read it and use it as 
> needed?
>
>   Here's what it holds:
>
> -----
> 	#
> 	# Set some generic aliases
> 	#
> 	alias o='less'
> 	alias ..='cd ..'
> 	alias ...='cd ../..'
> 	alias cd..='cd ..'
> 	alias rd=rmdir
> 	alias md='mkdir -p'
> -----
>
>   Thanks for any help with this. I've read man bash but it's an awful lot to 
> figure out and wasn't much help.
>
>   JB
>
>
>