[GRASS-user] GRASS-QGIS connection

[Glynn Clements]

David Kindem wrote:

> I'm running Lorenzo's binaries (6.2.1) on OS X.  I've recently  
> switched my default shell program from tcsh to bash.  When I try to  
> launch QGIS from within GRASS, I receive the following:
> 
> csh: /Applications/GrassGIS/Grass6.app/Contents/Resources/grass-6.2.1/ 
> bin:/Applications/GrassGIS/Grass6.app/Contents/Resources/grass-6.2.1/ 
> scripts:/Applications/GrassGIS/Grass6.app/Contents/Resources/ 
> grass-6.2.1/etc/gm/script:/usr/local/grasslib/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/ 
> bin:/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/Users/[your_user_name]/bin:/usr/local/ 
> bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin: No  
> match.
> : awk required, please install awk or gawk first

> I assume this is because bash isn't finding the proper path  
> information, which was set when I was running tcsh.  What is the best  
> way to set this information for bash?

The most reliable place is ~/.bash_profile.

There are also system files (e.g. /etc/profile) which configure bash
for all users, but these tend to be heavily tailored to a specific OS,
so it's hard to provide generic advice for those.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>