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kennedyl
kennedyl

Reputation: 181

Need to type exec bash everytime at startup

I'm sure this is a fairly simple problem, but I've put together a .bashrc file (located in my home directory) It includes my PS settings, some environmental exports and some aliases. First, I've read that these aren't all supposed to go into a .bashrc file but instead to include some of it in .bash_profile If I include a .bash_profile file then none of the changes make any effect. If I keep everything as one long .bashrc file then everything works as planned....once "exec bash" is entered at the command line. Every time I start my unix environment however, I have to type "exec bash" in order for everything to work. Am I just missing something really simple here? Sorry if this has been answered, a search didn't really bring up anything useful (could be my poor search!)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 909

Answers (1)

CristiFati
CristiFati

Reputation: 41116

According to [Man7]: chsh(1) (or man chsh), you should run:

chsh -s /bin/bash

Note: On some Nix distributions, location might be: /usr/bin/bash.

Upvotes: 2

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