Re: trouble getting .shrc to take

2012-09-27 Thread Gary Aitken
On 09/26/12 23:22, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:08:27 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: Having set my shell to either sh or bash, I can't seem to get .shrc to take. If I have a .shrc that looks like: PROMPT_DIRTRIM=3; export PROMPT_DIRTRIM PS1=\\w$ ; export PS1 PS1 is not

trouble getting .shrc to take

2012-09-26 Thread Gary Aitken
Having set my shell to either sh or bash, I can't seem to get .shrc to take. If I have a .shrc that looks like: PROMPT_DIRTRIM=3; export PROMPT_DIRTRIM PS1=\\w$ ; export PS1 PS1 is not defined when I log in, and the prompt is set to the default instead. If I do ./.shrc nothing seems to

Re: trouble getting .shrc to take

2012-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:08:27 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: Having set my shell to either sh or bash, I can't seem to get .shrc to take. If I have a .shrc that looks like: PROMPT_DIRTRIM=3; export PROMPT_DIRTRIM PS1=\\w$ ; export PS1 PS1 is not defined when I log in, and the prompt is