Rereading .bash_profile

[Robert]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> 
>>Robert wrote:
>>
>>>...except that constantly logging out and in while testing is a royal PITA.
>>>
>>>What is the proper way cause .bash_profile to be re-examined?
>>
>>. ~/.bash_profile
> 
> 
> are you *really* sure you want to re-source your .bash_profile?  i ask
> since it's possible that there are things in that file that really
> shouldn't be rerun.
> 
> a classic example is to append some entries to your search path:
> 
>   PATH=$PATH:blah:woof:.....
> 
> rerunning .bash_profile means that those entries will be appended
> *again*.  not fatal, of course, but i think too many people very
> cavalierly re-source that file without making sure there are no
> adverse consequences.
> 
> rday
> 

Thanks to Paul for answering, to HaJo for reminding me I asked when I 
should have been searching and to you, Robert, for adding the warning.

I tried it one time in a row, it did what I wanted and the only bad 
effect I've seen so far is that /home/rj/bin is in the path twice.
It's not hard to understand that the system would soon grow weary of
". /.bash_profile" in a free-running loop!
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