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
Thanks to Paul for answering, to HaJo for reminding me I asked when I should have been searching and to you, Robert, for adding the warning.
I tried it one time in a row, it did what I wanted and the only bad effect I've seen so far is that /home/rj/bin is in the path twice.
It's not hard to understand that the system would soon grow weary of
". /.bash_profile" in a free-running loop!
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