Re: who is setting the NAME variable in bash?

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 01:12 PM 8/25/2005, you wrote:
>I'm running bash 3.0-11.  I've just noticed for the first time that
>the NAME environment variable is set (to the same value as USER). This
>is breaking one of my Makefiles.
>
>Of course I can work around that, but what's bothering me is that I
>can't figure out why or where NAME is being set.  I've grepped for
>NAME through all of my bash startup files and everything in /etc, and
>I can't find it.  It's not mentioned in the bash man page.  Also NAME
>isn't set on my Linux box at home, which also runs bash 3.0.
>
>Any suggestions for how I can figure out who's setting NAME?  I want
>to make them stop.


Look in your Windows environment.  Apparently someone set it for you there.
If you don't want it, you can try removing it.  Windows doesn't require it
either so whatever added it is local to your installation  So you'll need
to determine the overall validity/usefulness of this variable yourself.



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