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line doesn't execute in .bash_profile and .bashrc on my Mac OSX Snow Leopard

I just installed Ruby Version Manager (RVM) which is working fine but it asked me to put the following line in my /.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc files:

if [[ -s /Users/tammam56/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] ; then source /Users/tammam56/.rvm/scripts/rvm ; fi

looking at the content I see the following:

tammam56$ cat /.bash_profile
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"
if [[ -s /Users/tammam56/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] ; then source /Users/tammam56/.rvm/scripts/rvm ; fi

tammam56$ cat ~/.bashrc 
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:$MANPATH
if [[ -s /Users/tammam56/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] ; then source /Users/tammam56/.rvm/scripts/rvm ; fi

However when I start new Terminal window it doesn't execute the command I know this as I set my default Ruby verion to 1.9 and if I execute the line manually I get to the correct version:

tammam56$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0]
Macintosh-37:~ tammam56$ if [[ -s /Users/tammam56/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] ; then source /Users/tammam56/.rvm/scripts/rvm ; fi
Macintosh-37:~ tammam56$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386-darwin10.2.0]

Any ideas how I can fix that?

Thanks,

Tam

Solution

  • If you have a ~/.profile try adding the following line to it.

    if [[ -s /Users/tammam56/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] ; then source /Users/tammam56/.rvm/scripts/rvm ; fi