.bashrc: Permission denied

Question

I try to work with a project in vagrant. I have made the command vagrant ssh, and connected to VM. Now I need to edit .bashrc file to set path to the source code. But first I couldn't find that file. So I googled and find that the way is call command ~/.bashrc. But doing this I get message, that I have no access to it:

[vagrant@nupic-vagrant:~]$ ~/.bashrc -bash: /home/vagrant/.bashrc: Permission denied 

So what to do now?

UPD. I can't find the .bashrc file. When I try to make command ls -a I get following:

[vagrant@nupic-vagrant:~]$ ls -a .              .bash_logout   cleanup.sh   sshd.sh        .veewee_params ..             .bash_profile  minimize.sh  vagrant.sh     .veewee_version .bash_history  .bashrc        .ssh         .vbox_version  .zsh_profile [vagrant@nupic-vagrant:~]$ locate .bashrc /etc/skel/.bashrc /home/vagrant/.bashrc /var/chef/backup/etc/skel/.bashrc.chef-20130614181911 /var/chef/backup/home/vagrant/.bashrc.chef-20130614181912 [vagrant@nupic-vagrant:~]$ 

But only the place where I can find some of those files is the directory where cygwin is installed. Pls, see illustrations, they reflect relations between directories vagrant and cygwin.

Answer 1

.bashrc is not meant to be executed but sourced. Try this instead:

. ~/.bashrc 

or, equivalently

source ~/.bashrc 

See the reference about the . (aka source) builtin.

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Note that if what you're looking for is to restart your Bash session after modifying your ~/.bashrc file, you might as well use:

exec bash 

That will replace your current Bash session (thanks to exec) by a new session.