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MacOSX Skills Test

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False

It is if you then ran another bash from there, but not initially.

If you want it, add ". ~/.bashrc" to ~/.bash_profile

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Sun Jan 7 07:00:18 2007   anonymous

linux & unix have been an unruly, writhing mass of worms as long as
they've been around, and Mac OS X just adds another (or two; BSD & Next)
layer of crap to the pile. To save myself time and trouble, and attempt
to ensure things work as intended, .bashrc is an actual file, containing
what I want. .profile & .bash_profile are symlinks pointing at .bashrc


Sun Jan 7 12:39:31 2007   TonyLawrence

Well, you aren't understanding their purpose and could be setting yourself
up for problems. See http://aplawrence.com/Detective/shbash.html


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