Hi, The following link says Emacs doesn't read .bashrc at all http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex/2006-01/msg00085.html any idea ? My BIBINPUTS is not working. I have put the following in my .bashrc file export BIBINPUTS=".:$HOME/bib:" export BSTINPUTS=".:$HOME/bst:" export TEXINPUTS=".:$HOME/bib:" Thanks ----------------------------- *Sanjib Sikder *Ph.D. Fellow Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay* * On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Sanjib Sikder wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for the reply. > > I have put the following in my .bashrc file > > export BIBINPUTS=".:$HOME/bib:" > export BSTINPUTS=".:$HOME/bst:" > export TEXINPUTS=".:$HOME/bib:" > > > where bib and bst are my two folders whose actual path are > /home/USERNAME/bib for example. > > But it is still not working. > > Thanks > > [I did one mistake, initially instead of placing these in .bashrc, i had > run those in terminal. Is it causing any problem?] > > > ----------------------------- > *Sanjib Sikder > *Ph.D. Fellow > Chemical Engineering > IIT Bombay* > > * > > > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala wrote: > >> >> Hello Sanjib, >> >> Sanjib Sikder writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > Can I use the bib file path using tilde (~) when doing latex export ? >> > >> > for example, Why can not I use \bibliography{~/Bib/RefAbv} ? >> > where my bibliography file name is RefAbv.bib >> > It gives error : undefined citation >> > >> > I do not want to use \bibliography{/home/USERNAME/Bib/RefAbv} >> > >> > I use dropbox. So if I can use tilde , then synchronzation is perfect. >> I can >> > work in any machine without changing the path of my bib files. >> > >> > Also I do not want to put the bib file in my working directory. >> > >> > I am using Ubuntu 12.04 >> >> Its more of bibtex not finding than org-export problem. >> >> I have this in my .bashrc (~/git/bib is the folder I put my citations) >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> export BIBINPUTS=".:$HOME/git/bib:" >> export BSTINPUTS=".:$HOME/git/bib:" >> export TEXINPUTS=".:$HOME/git/bib:" >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> And in my org file I don't even give any path name.. >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> \bibliographystyle{plain} >> \bibliography{bibfile} >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> >> Thanks., >> -- >> ఎందరో మహానుభావులు అందరికి వందనములు >> YYR >> > >