打开gnome-terminal而不需要.bashrc

Question

Since my .bashrc contains a lot of aliases, variables and lot of other stuff that changes the behavior of bash, from time to time I want to run gnome-terminal without sourcing it. I wonder if there's some easy way how to do this without the need to temporarily rename .bashrc or delete its contents.

Answer 1

You can run bash without sourcing .bashrc :

bash --norc

Then it is just a matter of creating a gnome-terminal profile which runs that bash command, rather than the default.

Answer 2

Another option, besides the one already mentioned ( bash --norc ) is a simple evaluation in the beginning of your ~/.bashrc and skip the rest in case you're running inside a gnome terminal.

For example, you might rely on the fact that other terminal emulators and remote SSH logins as well as local logins from virtual consoles don't set variable COLORTERM . Armed with this little bit of information you could just wrap everything in your ~/.bashrc inside a conditional statement:

if [ "$COLORTERM" != 'gnome-terminal' ]; then
  # all your current stuff in ~/.bashrc
fi

That way you don't have to rely to gnome terminal settings, in case you don't want to.