On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Paul Howarth wrote: > Robert wrote: > > ...except that constantly logging out and in while testing is a royal PITA. > > > > What is the proper way cause .bash_profile to be re-examined? > > . ~/.bash_profile are you *really* sure you want to re-source your .bash_profile? i ask since it's possible that there are things in that file that really shouldn't be rerun. a classic example is to append some entries to your search path: PATH=$PATH:blah:woof:..... rerunning .bash_profile means that those entries will be appended *again*. not fatal, of course, but i think too many people very cavalierly re-source that file without making sure there are no adverse consequences. rday
