Small, Sharp Software Tools by Brian P. Hogan

Author:Brian P. Hogan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf

Handling .bash_profile

As you learned earlier in this section, the .bashrc file isn’t read by macOS and might not be read on other systems. The best solution is to tell ~/.bash_profile to load ~/.bashrc if it exists. On Ubuntu, the .profile file already does this for you, but let’s walk through the process anyway so you understand how it works. In addition, the ~/.bash_profile will be used instead of ~/.profile if it exists.

Open ~/.bash_profile in your text editor:

​ ​$ ​​nano​​ ​​~/.bash_profile​

Add this code to the file which checks to see if the file ~/.bashrc exists and loads it if it does.

environment/bash_profile

​ ​if​ [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; ​then​

​ ​ ​source ~/.bashrc

​ ​fi​

Save the file and exit the editor. Now the settings will be applied no matter which way you start a new shell session.

Now let’s look at creating shortcuts to commands.

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