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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help with .profile Post 302792875 by MadeInGermany on Thursday 11th of April 2013 08:19:28 AM
Old 04-11-2013
1. This is normal. You run bash as another application. Must be terminated to get back to the main shell.
You can try this in .profile:
Code:
[ -x /bin/bash ] && exec /bin/bash

This should replace the primary login-shell by /bin/bash.
Safer is to change your login shell (in /etc/passwd), e.g. with command
Code:
chsh

2. use stronger quoting so evaluation can happen later:
Code:
export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -n [$(date +%H:%M:%S)]'

Probably the same, and certainly more efficient is to leave PROMPT_COMMAND unset and instead use
Code:
export PS1="[\D{%H:%M:%S}]\e[0;34m\u@\h \w> \e[m "

3. when bash finds .bash_profile it takes this instead of .profile. If necessary (e.g. becomes appropriate when the login shell was changed to /bin/bash) you can do
Code:
source ~/.profile


Last edited by MadeInGermany; 04-11-2013 at 02:51 PM..
 

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COMMAND-NOT-FOUND(1)					    http://en.opensuse.org/Sco					      COMMAND-NOT-FOUND(1)

NAME
command-not-found - A command-not-found handler SYNOPSIS
command-not-found {binary_name} {repository} ARGUMENTS
The following arguments are required: binary_name The name of binary you are looking for. repository The name of repository for search. For most cases, use zypp DESCRIPTION
command-not-found handler is designed to tell users which package contains a missing command. The handler is integrated to bash(1) and zsh(1) shells and is not necessary to call it directly. Just type a name of the command in your favourite shell and you'll get a result. If you consider c-n-f handler useless, just add unset command_not_found_handle to your profile or remove the command-not-found package. Handler doesn't call the command-not-found binary directly, it only prints info about it. If you want to invoke it automatically, just add export COMMAND_NOT_FOUND_AUTO=1 to your bash profile. EXAMPLE
: NORMAL USAGE For example you want to try blender, because you have heard that is an amazing program. So just type blender in shell: $ blender You get the following output: The program 'blender' can be found in the following package: * blender [ path: /usr/bin/blender, repository: zypp (openSUSE 11.1-0) ] Try installing with: sudo zypper install blender bash: blender: command not found SEE ALSO
scout(1) AUTHOR
Pavol Rusnak <stick@gk2.sk> Developer http://gitorious.org/opensus 08/07/2009 COMMAND-NOT-FOUND(1)
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