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~/.bashrc not autosourced in 12.04 lts

rated 0 times [ 6] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2618 / 1 Year ago, mon, october 10, 2022, 4:34:10

As this post says, the ~/.bashrc is sourced automatically in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server, which I use.
I don't know where he got this information from, but as it is not downvoted yet, I believe it is true.

I used this script to check if it is sourced:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then

   echo "Not sourced!";

fi

Just for info: Permissions at the moment are 775 and owner is me.

So why is my ~/.bashrc not sourced?

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answered 1 Year ago lintical · Accepted Answer

As we found out, you have no .profile file in your home. Look at the bash's manual here for Bash startup files.

Make a .profile for yourself:

nano ~/.profile

Insert this text to that file (copied from Debian Squeeze):

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.

# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login

# exists.

# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.

# the files are located in the bash-doc package.



# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask

# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.

#umask 022



# if running bash

if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then

    # include .bashrc if it exists

    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then

        . "$HOME/.bashrc"

    fi

fi



# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists

if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then

    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"

fi

Tip: if you are making a new user, use the -m switch to make him a dir, and place the default files, eg.: sudo useradd example -m -d /home/example