.bashrc

[Janina Sajka]

I like the solution some of us on this list came up with a few wekks ago 
better. I think this started with Chuck. Saqib added the cool command 
syntax at the end:

1.)	Create a /etc/speakup;
2.)	Create a subdirectory in /etc/speakup for each of the synths 
available to you on your computer. If that's only one synth, that's OK;

3.)	Launch linux with each of your synths, one at a time. Tweak your 
setteings as you want them by default. Then do:

	cp -a /proc/speakup/* /etc/speakup/[synthname]
	chmod -R 755 /etc/speakup/*

NOTE:	You may delete any files in /etc/speakup/[yoursynth] that weren't 
modified by you as you set your defaults, but no damage if you don't;

4.)	Now for the cool part. Create an alias in one of your login files. 
I put the following in my .bash_profile:

alias s="cp /etc/speakup/`cat /proc/speakup/synth`/* /proc/speakup"
s

The first of these two lines defines an alias I've called "s" but you can 
call it anything you like, obviously. I guess I'm into terse aliases for 
commands I might want to give often. The second line calls this alias so 
that My defaults are set after I login. Thereafter, to return to defaults, 
I simply type s and press enter.

This works like a charm for me. Your mileage may vary, of course.



 On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Shaun Oliver wrote:

> just a thought,
> try creating a .bash_profile file
> and adding the various speakup parameters in there.
> or better yet, make it part of the boot process.
> eg, try adding those speech lines to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local,
> or if you run a distribution such as debian,
> try creating a 2 or 3 line shell script in your /etc/init.d directory
> called speakup and make it executable and then create a symlink to it in
> /etc/rc2.d and call it something like S10speakup
> hth
> Shaun..
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002,
> Richard Wells wrote:
> 
> > How do I get my user account to see the .bashrc in the account's directory
> > and execute any changes such as different speakup parameters? If i type
> > "bash" after I log in the .bashrc file loads configuration but if I don't,
> > it seems to be ignored.
> >
> > Thanks for help with this.
> >
> >
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