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Instruct VTune to launch app in bash shell

Ryan_H_2 — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 23:21:33 GMT

I am having trouble launching my application from VTune. We've got a number of bash shell scripts that need to run to set up the environment first. So, I'd like VTune to launch a new bash shell to run my application in. If I do a ps command in the launch application, I see that it is launching /bin/sh. Unfortunately, that is linked to dash on our system (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh). Is there a way to instruct VTune to use a new bash shell (perhaps a env variable)?

Ryan

have you tried specifying

David_A_Intel1 — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 23:23:43 GMT

have you tried specifying bash as the app to launch and your script as the command argument to bash?

Thanks for the response. Yes,

Ryan_H_2 — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 05:22:50 GMT

Thanks for the response. Yes, I tried that. The resulting bash env is not the same as if I ran the script from a new bash shell command line. From what I gather, /bin/sh is started and a /bin/bash shell inherits its env (never running any bashrc files).

Ryan

Try adding this option to the

David_A_Intel1 — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:45:00 GMT

Try adding this option to the command arguments and specifying your bashrc file.

The --rcfile file option will force Bash to read and execute commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.