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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:29:16 +0100
From:      V.Dormeyer@t-online.de (Volker Dormeyer)
To:        David Banning <tracker@worldy.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bash doesn't recognize .profile when in X
Message-ID:  <20000222232916.A631@t-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002221533250.16245-100000@mweb.worldy.com>; from David Banning on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:47:19PM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002221533250.16245-100000@mweb.worldy.com>

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On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:47:19PM +0000, David Banning wrote:
> I have this command in my .profile which allows me to do a "ls -lt" with
> just an "l";
> 
> l() { /bin/ls -lt $*; }			# less typing
> 
> that works find when not in X - but when I fire up my window manager
> (kde)
> it will not recognize the command.
> 
> Any ideas ?

Hi,

start your kde terminal with the -ls option so it acts a
login shell and reads your .profile.

-Volker-

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