[maemo-users] .bashrc not executed

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:38:41PM -0300, Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail wrote:
> I have a similar issue.
> 
> I put some environment variables and an alias in the .profile.
> 
> this worked, so I was playing with vim to get familiar and so I took
> what I saw in my /root/.profile file and try to put it in my .profile.
> basically the:
> 
>  include .bashrc if it exists
> if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
>    . "$HOME/.bashrc"
> fi
> 
> # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
>    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
> fi
> 
> and moved my alias and environment variables to my new .bashrc
> 
> # go environment variables
> . /opt/go/bin/go_profile
> 
> # Aliases
> alias wksp='cd;cd $HOME/MyDocs/Workspace'
> 
> But this didn't work. I get a:
> -sh:  : not found
       ^
This here is a <U+00A0> NO-BREAK SPACE character.  Please find it in
your .profile/.bashrc/whatever and replace it with an ordinary ASCII space.

Hint:

> if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
>    . "$HOME/.bashrc"
  ^- it's here

Marius Gedminas
-- 
I dont know about madness (and anyway, the little green martians dancing
around me tell me not to worry...), but I've implemented something not
unlike this just now.
	-- Peter Sabaini
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