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jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

Posts: 245

xfce4-terminal -e not reading ~/.bashrc?

Hi,

I have options defined for less in ~/.bashrc.

LESS=--use-color --line-num-width=3

Running

xfce4-terminal -e 'less f.txt' 

doesn't show colours.

Running less from the xfce4-terminal prompt "as usual" does.

Doesn't xfce4-terminal -e '<command>' read ~/.bashrc?.

Thanks

Tamaranch

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Registered: 2020-12-31

Posts: 321

Re: xfce4-terminal -e not reading ~/.bashrc?

No it doesn't, because bash is invoked non-interactively: see man bash -> invocation.
You can try this:

xfce4-terminal -e "bash -ic 'less f.txt'"

jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

Posts: 245

Re: xfce4-terminal -e not reading ~/.bashrc?

Thanks .

PaperNick

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Registered: 2013-05-26

Posts: 107

Re: xfce4-terminal -e not reading ~/.bashrc?

Thanks Tamaranch! Didn't know about the interactive mode. Had the same issue as jt1122.