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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:01:24 -0500 |
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Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:58 -0400, Benjamin Leggett wrote: |
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> > Alright guys, I'm a beginner in need of a little shell help. |
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> > What I want to do is make fbrun (the run dialog for fluxbox) aware |
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> > of my bashrc. Upon perusing the source, I found that fbrun execs the |
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> > given |
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> > string with $SHELL if set, otherwise /bin/sh is used. My $SHELL is |
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> > set to bash so fbrun runs the command with a non-interactive bash |
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> > shell (the "-c" option.) |
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> > Checking the bash manpage, I found that bash apparently checks the |
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> > environment variable $BASH_ENV for an rc file if it's run with the |
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> > -c option. I sure that I should probably know this, but where |
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> > should I set |
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> > this variable? I considered dropping something in /etc/env.d, but |
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> > that didn't work, and I don't know if that's the right way to do it. |
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> > Any help appreciated, |
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> I guess my question would be why do you (think you) want to run |
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> your .bashrc? That's really designed for setting up interactive |
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> stuff. |
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Well, I'd like to have fbrun use my aliases. |
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e.g., running foo instead of foo --bar --baz=noo |
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