How to fix Terminal not loading bashrc on OS X Lion

Question

Whenever I open a new tab in Terminal using Cmd   T  it opens bash in the same directory  as the previous tab  This works fine when I m in the   directory  but if I m anywhere else  I get an error loading  bashrc  Last login  Sat Oct 15 21 10 00 on ttys002 -bash   bashrc  No such file or directory Jakub-Arnolds-MacBook-Pro projects darth     It looks like  bashrc is loaded via relative and not absolute path  because if I do source    bashrc  everything works smoothly     I think this is a OS X Lion related problem  because before the upgrade from Snow Leopard  I didn t have the same issue  But that might be caused by Terminal always opening at    I don t remember if it tried to open the same directory   However the question remains the same  how can I make Terminal load    bashrc via absolute path  and not relative

User · Answer

Renaming  bashrc to  profile  or soft-linking the latter to the former  should also do the trick  See here

User · Answer

I have the following in my    bash profile   if   -f    bashrc    then      bashrc  fi   If I had  bashrc instead of    bashrc  I d be seeing the same symptom you re seeing

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Terminal opens a login shell  This means     bash profile will get executed     bashrc not   The solution on most systems is to  require  the    bashrc in the    bash profile  just put this snippet in your    bash profile      -s    bashrc     amp  amp  source    bashrc

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