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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Setting up Bash profile Post 302280863 by kaushys on Tuesday 27th of January 2009 05:21:32 PM
Old 01-27-2009
Setting up Bash profile
Hi,
I have a SunOS -s 5.9 Generic_118558-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 system.

I need to set up my .bash_profile. I need to do the following thins.

1) set up history
2) Set up VI as my editor
3) Display the current directory at the prompt.

I have tried using the set command, the PS vairialble, running the /usr/bin/bash,,,,,,,everything.

But for some reason when I log in it is not in the proper shell. I need to EXIT once I login and it comes out of some shell. Only then all those things seem to work. Does someone know what should my .bash_profile look like?
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

bashbug

BASHBUG(1)							      bashbug								BASHBUG(1)

NAME

       bashbug - report a bug in bash

SYNOPSIS

       bashbug [--help] [--version] [bug-report-email-addresses]

DESCRIPTION

       bashbug is a utility for reporting bugs in Bash to the maintainers.

       bashbug will start up your preferred editor with a preformatted bug report template for you to fill in. Save the file and quit the editor
       once you have completed the missing fields.  bashbug will notify you of any problems with the report and ask for confirmation before
       sending it. By default the bug report is mailed to both the GNU developers and the Debian Bash maintainers. The recipients can be changed
       by giving a comma separated list of bug-report-email-addresses.

       If you invoke bashbug by accident, just quit your editor. You will always be asked for confirmation before a bug report is sent.

OPTIONS

       --help
	      Show a brief usage message and exit.

       --version
	      Show the version of bashbug and exit.

       bug-report-email-addresses
	      Comma separated list of recipients' email addresses. By default the report is mailed to both the GNU developers and the Debian Bash
	      maintainers.

ENVIRONMENT

       DEFEDITOR
	      Editor to use for editing the bug report.

       EDITOR
	      Editor to use for editing the bug report (overridden by DEFEDITOR).

SEE ALSO

       bash(1), reportbug(1), update-alternatives(8) for preferred editor.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Christer Andersson <klamm@comhem.se> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

GNU Bash 3.1							 11 December 2007							BASHBUG(1)
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