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How Do You Run Bashrc File in Linux?

Chloe Bennett • • 5 min read
How Do You Run Bashrc File in Linux?
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How do I run a .bashrc file in Linux?

Steps

  1. Change to your home directory. cd $HOME.
  2. Open the . bashrc file.
  3. Add the following line to the file. Replace the JDK directory with the name of your java installation directory. export PATH=/usr/java/<JDK Directory>/bin:$PATH.
  4. Save the file and exit. Use the source command to force Linux to reload the .

How do I open a .bashrc file?

bashrc files. Now, you will edit and (and “source”) the ~/. bashrc file. I noticed that pure exec bash command will preserve the environment variables, so you need to use exec -c bash to run bash in an empty environment.

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