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  • you think like me :) I also use "yes" instead of true/false Commented Feb 21, 2018 at 21:17
  • yeah this doesn't work as I was hoping. Every time I open a new terminal window, it will resource the .privaterc file. That makes sense because when you call export it won't change the parent shell. So what we need is a way so that an original parent shell is what's called when we first login, and then any terminal will already be a subshell of that parent shell.. Commented Feb 21, 2018 at 21:26
  • do you follow what I am saying? any other ideas? I have always found info on this stuff to be a little wishy washy, but there must be some way to inherit stuff in a bash shell, instead of having to re-source stuff every time. Commented Feb 21, 2018 at 21:37