When I edit .bashrc in Ubuntu 20.04, it does not ask me to save anymore

mLstudent33

2/28/23, 6:26 PM

I'm not sure what happened but when I sudo nano ~/.bashrc to add a couple of exports

#spotify
export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

before it would ask me something about saving changes, I'd ctrl-x to exit and then it would ask me if I wanted to save changes to which I'd answer 'yes' and ctrl-X to exit but now it skips this and goes right back to

(spotifydl) nobu@nobu-IdeaPad-3-15IIL05:/media/nobu/NTFSUbuWin/downloadsUbu$

where spotifydl is the activated conda environment where I have the pip package installed. https://github.com/SathyaBhat/spotify-dl/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md

Why is Ubuntu skipping the ctrl-X save step after editing .bashrc now? doing source ~/.bashrc seems to have no effect now (because of this?)

Edit as directed by @sudodus here is the output.

-rw-r--r-- 1 nobu nobu 5540 Oct 30 11:10 /home/nobu/.bashrc

I tried

nano ~/.bashrc

The exports are there but again I am not prompted to save.

115

0 + 0

python

command-line

bash

bashrc

sudodus

2/28/23, 1:31 AM

The ownership and permissions are OK. The problem is somewhere else. But you do remember, that if you did not change anything, `nano` knows that, and exits without saving? So try again with `nano ~/.bashrc` and add something harmless, try to save it, and check what happens.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

2/28/23, 2:55 AM

It would be interesting to try `gedit ~/.bashrc` and see if that allows you to save changes.

mLstudent33

2/28/23, 3:36 AM

I tried `gedit ~/.bashrc` and I clicked save, closed the editor, did `source ~/.bashrc` and still the same.

mLstudent33

2/28/23, 3:40 AM

I tired `nano ~/.bashrc` now added a word `yay` to the comment and now it prompted me. I always thought editing .bashrc was a sudo command because I remember it asking me to use sudo back when I had Ubuntu 16.04 and it just became a habit.

sudodus

2/28/23, 6:52 PM

Please run `ls -l ~/.bashrc` and edit the original question to show the output from the command. It will tell us if you have created problems with ownership because you use `sudo` when you should not. It is a file that should belong to your normal user ID. - Try with `nano ~/.bashrc`

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EN: When I edit .bashrc in Ubuntu 20.04, it does not ask me to save anymore

TH: เมื่อฉันแก้ไข .bashrc ใน Ubuntu 20.04 มันไม่ขอให้ฉันบันทึกอีกต่อไป

RO: Când editez .bashrc în Ubuntu 20.04, nu îmi mai cere să salvez

RU: Когда я редактирую .bashrc в Ubuntu 20.04, он больше не просит меня сохранить

VI: Khi tôi chỉnh sửa .bashrc trong Ubuntu 20.04, nó không yêu cầu tôi lưu nữa

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