Non-interactive bash help?
 

Alright guys, I'm a beginner in need of a little shell help.

What I want to do is make fbrun (the run dialog for fluxbox) aware of
my bashrc. Upon perusing the source, I found that fbrun execs the given
string with $SHELL if set, otherwise /bin/sh is used. My $SHELL is set
to bash so fbrun runs the command with a non-interactive bash shell
(the "-c" option.)

Checking the bash manpage, I found that bash apparently checks the
environment variable $BASH_ENV for an rc file if it's run with the -c
option. I sure that I should probably know this, but where should I set
this variable? I considered dropping something in /etc/env.d, but that
didn't work, and I don't know if that's the right way to do it.

Any help appreciated,

Ben Leggett


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Non-interactive bash help?
 

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:58 -0400, Benjamin Leggett wrote:
> Alright guys, I'm a beginner in need of a little shell help.
>
> What I want to do is make fbrun (the run dialog for fluxbox) aware of
> my bashrc. Upon perusing the source, I found that fbrun execs the
> given
> string with $SHELL if set, otherwise /bin/sh is used. My $SHELL is set
> to bash so fbrun runs the command with a non-interactive bash shell
> (the "-c" option.)
>
> Checking the bash manpage, I found that bash apparently checks the
> environment variable $BASH_ENV for an rc file if it's run with the -c
> option. I sure that I should probably know this, but where should I
> set
> this variable? I considered dropping something in /etc/env.d, but that
> didn't work, and I don't know if that's the right way to do it.
>
> Any help appreciated,

I guess my question would be why do you (think you) want to run
your .bashrc? That's really designed for setting up interactive stuff.



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Non-interactive bash help?
 

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:01:24 -0500
Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:58 -0400, Benjamin Leggett wrote:
> > Alright guys, I'm a beginner in need of a little shell help.
> >
> > What I want to do is make fbrun (the run dialog for fluxbox) aware
> > of my bashrc. Upon perusing the source, I found that fbrun execs the
> > given
> > string with $SHELL if set, otherwise /bin/sh is used. My $SHELL is
> > set to bash so fbrun runs the command with a non-interactive bash
> > shell (the "-c" option.)
> >
> > Checking the bash manpage, I found that bash apparently checks the
> > environment variable $BASH_ENV for an rc file if it's run with the
> > -c option. I sure that I should probably know this, but where
> > should I set
> > this variable? I considered dropping something in /etc/env.d, but
> > that didn't work, and I don't know if that's the right way to do it.
> >
> > Any help appreciated,
>
> I guess my question would be why do you (think you) want to run
> your .bashrc? That's really designed for setting up interactive
> stuff.
>

Well, I'd like to have fbrun use my aliases.
e.g., running foo instead of foo --bar --baz=noo