Shell Programming and Scripting

I have . set -o emacs in my .profile because that's what I'm used to for retrieving commands etc... In my profile I also setup several different aixterms and want the . set -o emacs to apply to these new terminals as well. How do I go about doing this so I don't need to manually enter the command when I initially navigate to each window ?

Thanks !

hi,
that depends on the shell you are using. first you need to understand how profiles are processed (that depends on the actuall shell read the man page)

.profile is normaly read by the login shell (what means once)
.bashrc is read every time a shell is started (until you told it to ignore .bashrc) this true for bash
if you are using ksh then use .kshrc using csh is different either.

I am using the korn shell. So you are saying I need to put the . set -o emacs in my .kshrc ?

Typically .kshrc is not read upon login unless you source it in your .profile. .bashrc is sourced automatically. Just add the command to your .profile and it'll be started each time you log in no matter how many terminal windows you have.

This is true in AIX, Solaris and HP-UX. Some older versions of Red Hat seem to use .bashrc and others use .profile. I haven't pursued what the difference although I think newer versions are using .profile.

I edited my .bashrc in most of the Red Hat servers I administrated at the time, but a couple of new servers based on AS 4 I believe didn't read the .bashrc files and I had to set up a .profile to set my standard environment variables.

Carl

I am on machine with AIX and I had it sourced in my .profile and that didn't seem to work. I added set -o emacs to my .kshrc and all is well now. Thanks for the response.