[ubuntu] Boy did I ever break my ubuntu

Hi! I wanted to simplify my bash prompt, so I edited my etc/bashrc file. I thought this was the file that would override any other env files. When I opened it, I saw that the way it was setup was not what my prompt looked like, although I forget exactly what was there. But i edited it the way I wanted it

Code: PS1="$ " and saved it.

Terminal shows this bash: /home/atlas/.bashrc: line 73: syntax error near unexpected token [' bash: /home/atlas/.bashrc: line 73:if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ] ; then ' I've tried to fix it using "cp /ect/skel/.bashrc ~/"

And I get this "cp: cannot stat `/ect/skel/.bashrc': No such file or directory"

I'm unsure of why this is doing this and how to fix it.

I'm trying to launch one command in a new gnome-terminal window from a shell script, and it seems that my .bashrc file doesn't get sourced when calling gnome-terminal and executing a command:

gnome-terminal -t "my title" -e vim

But it does when launching gnome-terminal alone:

gnome-terminal -t "my title"

(for testing purposes, just add a echo "something" to the end of the .bashrc)

I also tr

Hello,

I edited some lines (altered HISTZISE and added an aliases) in .bashrc and now, every time I start the terminal the aliases declared in .bashrc appear on the top of the terminal window.

No idea why this happens.

Just provisioned a new Rackspace instance with Ubuntu 12.04 and pulled down rbenv from their github and installed it.

I'm getting the following errors when executing . ./~bashrc

$ .

If you are a power user who spends a lot of time with the terminal, having the weather info displayed in the terminal whenever you open it could be somehow handy. A tool to get the weather info is weathe-utils.

I've tried apt-get purging and reinstalling emacs, but if I run:

Code: emacs ~/.bashrc I get a blank file (emacs.d) that looks like this:

If I run the same command as root:

Code: sudo emacs ~/.bashrc I get the correct file that looks like this:

I've never understood the buffer thing, but emacs has worked great for me in the past.

I need to log in to various servers via ssh, and its a useful thing to log the terminal (even things in smitty menus/AIX and with correct/exact date/time).

Possible Duplicate: Why won’t my xmodmap command run on startup/login?

I have my .bashrc file with the three following commands:

xmodmap ~/.xmodmap synclient TapButton2=2 synclient ClickFinger2=3

They are supposed to execute when I log in, right?