~/.profile not being executed when Terminal opens? [OS X 10.6.8]
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Somehow my bash prompt got changed to "elementary:~ steven$" and I want to change it back to the default prompt. I've added the following first to ~/.bashrc then to ~/.profile: Neither get executed when I open Terminal. If I run the command on either file it works fine for the remainder of that ses…
Error Output
export PS1="\s-\v\$ "
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Fix for: ~/.profile not being executed when Terminal opens? [OS X 10.6.8]
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is only executed for non-interactive shells according to the bash man page. is executed for login shells. The file is loaded by Korn shells. I don't know that bash pays any attention to this at all. I couldn't find any reference to it in the bash ma…
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