Vscode: Allow integrated terminal to run as login shell

[luchillo17]

• VSCode Version: 1.2.0
• OS Version: Ubuntu 16.04

While testing the integrated terminal i realized that my native terminal aliases and custom commands are missing, say i have an alias like alias ll='ls -FGlahp' defined in my .bash_profile which gives me colored folder list with / terminated names for folders, if i try the same in the integrated terminal the output is the following, is it possible to embed the native terminal or config in the integrated one the import to the same config files of the native one?

ll: command not found

Steps to Reproduce:

1. In Ubuntu just put a custom alias in the config files of your bash session, most likely .bash_profile or .bashrc.
2. Try to use that new custom alias in the VS Code integrated terminal.

[luchillo17]

I've tried to call source ~/.bash_profile and it worked perfectly, maybe if we could configure the source file for the integrated terminal session this would be a finished feature.

[luchillo17]

Ok i've been testing and the difference with native and integrated is the fact that i configured the native to Run as login shell, idk if the integrated one has the config option like the native like this in profile:

[gertcuykens]

+1 for startup command feature so you can launch source ~/.bash_profile automaticlly

[Tyriar]

Yes currently the terminal runs as a non-login shell, I'll add this to the backlog.

In the meantime, if you don't want differences between login and non-login shells, I recommend moving the .bash_profile contents to your .bashrc and adding the following to your .bash_profile:

# .bash_profile
if [ -r ~/.bashrc ]; then
  . ~/.bashrc
fi

[luchillo17]

I already have the source to .bashrc in .bash_profile however i will avoid editing the provided .bashrc by the system, i think i will stick to the native one until we can configure the launch of the integrated terminal.

[Tyriar]

@Luchillo it should be safe to just add their own stuff to the bottom of the default .bashrc file.

[coreh]

Workaround:

1) Create a file named /usr/local/bin/bash-login (or whatever you'd like to name it) and add the following lines to it (You might need root to create that file depending on your setup):

#!/bin/bash
bash -l

2) Make it executable with chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bash-login.

3) On your VSCode user settings, set:

{
  "terminal.integrated.shell.linux": "/usr/local/bin/bash-login"
}

4) Profit ✨

[Tyriar]

@coreh if adding the -l arg is all there is to it then this should make it into the next release in the form of https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7266

[luchillo17]

@Tyriar Yes, -l flag, that's all it needs.
Also i won't edit the .bashrc but put all changes in .bash_profile in order to have compatibility with OSX systems, i have my .bash_profile in a repo that saves the changes so that i get similar behaviour in both OSX and Ubuntu, same aliases and OS dependent commands.

[luchillo17]

@coreh Awesome workaround, how didn't i tough about it?

[Tyriar]

Going to close this in favor of https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7266 which will allow you to do this in 1.3.0:

{
  "terminal.integrated.shell.linux": "bash",
  "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.linux": [ "-l" ]
}

In the meantime if you want this working on stable you can do the workarounds that myself https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7263#issuecomment-224140256 or @coreh https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7263#issuecomment-224207986 suiggested.

[luchillo17]

Cool.

[tiagolo]

guys, what about in windows??
Will I be able to do the same with Windows 10 Ubuntu Bash, or Git-Bash?
Anyone can give a tip on creating a .bat file to launch bash as a login shell?

[Tyriar]

@tiagolo not sure it's even a concept on git bash, for Ubuntu Bash it's all about whether the executable accepts command line arguments, not really a question for us.

[tiagolo]

@Tyriar actualy the Git-Bash shell has the same issue with the non-login shell, so after some search I could get away with a batch file like this:

@ECHO OFF
"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe" --login -i

[kattak2k]

Just to help others, to fix the issue on Ubuntu 17.04... try below code

{
    "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.linux": ["--login"]
}

result: basically it formats to /bin/bash --login

[w5m]

Overriding default settings with the following user settings worked nicely for me on Windows...

{ 
   // Git Bash
    "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe",
    // start a login shell to pick up aliases from .bash_profile
    "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": ["--login"]
}