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Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH
- From: "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut dot karlowski at ish dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 22:31:17 +0100
- Subject: Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH
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Am 08.12.2015, 22:26 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski:
Am 08.12.2015, 22:21 Uhr, schrieb Achim Gratz:
Helmut Karlowski writes:
Can you tell me in which circumstances this happens and why this is a
problem? SHELL is supposed to be the user preference, so I don't
think
/etc/profile should try to second-guess it.
/etc/profile is run before ~/.profile, and if that does not set SHELL
there will be none.
Yes, but why is this a problem? Note that bash will set it anyway if
not present.
All shells set it only when run as login-shell.
-Helmut
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