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Old 03-16-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by scottn
Still confused, I can only imagine that when you set something in your terminal that you don't want or didn't mean, you would like to "undo" that?
I think he means he has lots of aliases, functions etc. in his bashrc that he'd occasionally like to bypass.
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# 9  
Old 03-16-2011
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Will a new shell do?
Code:
user@wherever ~ $ bash --noprofile --norc
bash-4.1$ exit
user@wherever ~ $

You could even have it replace the current shell with exec bash --noprofile --norc.

Or if you just want it to reread your config file, exec bash.
Thank you. I like this one Smilie.

exec bash


Quote:
Originally Posted by scottn
Still confused, I can only imagine that when you set something in your terminal that you don't want or didn't mean, you would like to "undo" that?

I don't really know what .bashrc has to do with this, or why it would suddenly change, reload itself, and start annoying you, so if you could post specific examples of what you mean, that would be dandy Smilie
It is nice at times to have warnings. At other times when you are using these commands all of the time they get very annoying.

Code:
alias rm='rm -i'
alias mv='mv -i' 
alias cp='cp -i'

---------- Post updated at 02:40 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:36 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
I think he means he has lots of aliases, functions etc. in his bashrc that he'd occasionally like to bypass.
Yes Smilie. These 3 to be exact. Thank you for clarifying. Not good at explaining myself sometimes Smilie.

Code:
alias rm='rm -i'
alias mv='mv -i' 
alias cp='cp -i'

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# 10  
Old 03-16-2011
I agree that can be really annoying!

For that, you could unalias cp, etc.

Or bypass the alias with a back-slash:
Code:
\cp ...

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