[Wylug-help] Backing up to remote host - using keychain for passwords

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 02 March 2011 12:37:20 Smylers wrote:
> > (BTW - can I force this to be read again after making a change, without 
> > logging out?)
> 
> Yes. The clue is in the last line of your .bash_profile quoted above,
> which loads your .bashrc, using the source command. It works from the
> shell prompt too:
> 
>   $ source .bash_profile
> 
> Much less intuitively, the source command can be abbreviated to a single
> full stop, so this does the same thing with less typing:
> 
>   $ . .bash_profile
> 
> Note that source simply runs the commands in the file; it doesn't
> 'unrun' any previous commands. That means adding or changing something
> in .bash_profile then source-ing it usually does what you want, but
> after deleting something generally won't (because the command will have
> been run previously, and simply not running it won't reverse that!), so
> in some cases logging out and back in again is still the simplest thing
> to do.
> 
> Hope that helps on this small aside, and good luck with solving your
> main problem.

Thanks.  That helps a lot.

Anne
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