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How to persist environment variables in ash, the Almquist shell?
How can I get ash to load some environment variables on startup?
Just put them in /etc/profile
/etc/profile is only read for login shells; what about non-login shells, as frequently pop up when ...
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How can I make my script in /etc/profile.d to run after all other scripts in same directory?
I'm writing an installer script on Ubuntu for an application which needs multiple parts such as
install a specific g++ version, put a script in profile.d, reboot
install drivers for some hardware, ...
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Is there a totally empty Bash file I can use (or create) to extend .bashrc and .profile?
I know that by principle, one shouldn't change .bashrc and common changes like creating an alias should better be done in .profile instead.
When I rent a new IaaS system with Bash as main shell, the ...
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AppArmor prevent program from reading dirs/files I haven't explicitly allowed?
I don't want programs to be able to read my whole home directory. For example, I'd like to have firefox's read ability restricted to:
owner @{HOME}/Downloads/ r,
owner @{HOME}/Downloads/** rwk,
owner ...
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New tmux session only sources .zshrc, and doesn't pick up the $PATH defined in .profile
After reading multiple questions on this topic I still feel lost. I read suggestions that one should set the environment variables including $PATH in .profile instead of specifically in .bashrc or ....
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sudo not executing bashrc as expected
Overall issue is when I log in, my prompt appears correctly formatted as per the /etc/bashrc but when I sudo to another user using bash, the prompt gets fubar'd.
Essential formatting in the /etc/...
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Storing all environment variables in one file
What are the caveats of having one single file with environment variables?
What I would like to do is to create a file (e.g. ~/.env) which contains all necessary PATH declarations and possibly other ...
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Why does sourcing a script in .profile not work?
I have an executable script which I want to run every time I log in or open a new interactive shell. I added the path to this executable in .profile and sourced it by adding this line to .profile
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/etc/profile, ~/.bashrc and no other profile files are sourced for users, only for root
Since I've upgraded my server from Debian 8 to 9 I have a strange behavior with bash. When I log in via ssh, none of the profile files are loaded, I get the following prompt:
Linux myserver 4.9.0-7-...
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Cannot log in because of corrupted .bash_profile [duplicate]
I have created a new user account.
I can't access it because of a .bash_profile error.
How can I repair this type of error?
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How to write an automatically sourced shell script to /etc/profile
I heard through the grapevine that files in /etc/profile will be automatically sourced by bash upon login?
I tried writing something simple to /etc/profile:
echo "echo 'foo'" > /etc/profile/foo....
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KDE konsole command line option --profile not working
I'm running KDE 4.11 on CentOS 7.5.1804 (Core), with konsole package 'konsole-4.10.5-4.el7.x86_64'.
Within the konsole application I created a profile named 'pi@eecspi', and from within a running ...
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Debian 9.4— .profile not read on bash login
The .profile file includes a statement to add the $HOME/bin directory to the PATH (if that bin directory exists). This is not being executed on my bash login.
If I manually load the .profile file
. ...
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/etc/profile not sourced for users
In the ubuntu server I run, I added customisations in /etc/bash.bashrc and as .sh files in /etc/profile.d, to add some useful aliases and functionalities for my users. All of them run correctly for my ...
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Is it possible to source ~/.profile in the current shell from a script? [duplicate]
Take the following ~/test.sh script as an example:
#!/bin/bash
sudo -u ${SUDO_USER} cp ~/.profile ~/.profile.bak
cat <<EOF >>/home/${SUDO_USER}/.profile
export HELLO="Hello ...
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Does a noninteractive login shell execute `~/.profile` or a file whose name is `$BASH_ENV`?
From Bash Manual
Invoked as an interactive login shell, or with --login
When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first ...
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Is a shell provided by `ssh username@server` login, and does it execute ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc? [closed]
From bash manual
Invoked by remote shell daemon
Bash attempts to determine when it is being run with its standard
input connected to a network connection, as when executed by the
remote ...
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Is it a good practice to make different configuration files as symlinks to some scripts under the same directory?
I was wondering if it is a good practice to make the following configuration files as symlinks to some scripts under a directory e.g. ~/program_files/configurations/.
The scripts /etc/rc.local, /...
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How do you run a command with sudo in `~/.profile`?
Is it a bad practice to run a command which requires sudo in ~/.profile?
If really want to do that, how can I make the command run at rebooting Ubuntu?
make the command running with sudo and under ...
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How to make custom zsh script executable automatically?
I must be missing something incredibly simple about how to do this, but I have a simple script:
extract () {
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
case $1 in
*.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
*.tar.gz) ...
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When tmux exits (closes pty master), background processes from startup scripts die — why?
I'm having difficulty understanding an answer I received to a question I posed about tmux — specifically, re: what the pseudoterminal does with child processes when it exits.
Original Question
I ...
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Dynamic .bash_profile login shell
I am trying to find a way to dynamically set bash environment settings depending on the environment I am logging in from.
For example:
Opening a Terminal session from the xfce GUI, it would load a "...
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should I export PATH in .bash_profile or .bashrc? [duplicate]
I understand that ~/.bash_profile is for login shells and ~/.bashrc is for non-login shells. From what I understand of this, the options in .bash_profile would be invoked only once upon login, and ...
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Can I start a Flatpak app in a separate profile?
I normally start and stop Revolt with these Flatpak commands:
# start
flatpak run org.perezdecastro.Revolt
# stop
gdbus call --session \
--dest org.perezdecastro.Revolt \
--object-path /org/...
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zsh .zprofile / .zlogin not being sourced on gdm login? [duplicate]
I have noticed that ~/.zprofile and ~/.zlogin are only loaded (in my computer) when I use a login shell, but when I login with gdm, they are not run; ~/.profile is ran instead. Is this normal?
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Why is my sudo PATH different than my normal user PATH? [duplicate]
I'm having trouble with my PATH. I have a clean instance of an Amazon Linux virtual server and I set this in /etc/profile
M3_HOME=/usr/local/maven
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/latest
PATH="$PATH:$M3_HOME/bin:...
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KDE Plasma: save display/desktop/taskbar settings in a profile?
I am using default Manjaro (17.0.5) install with KDE Plasma on my laptop. On my work I connect two external displays. Everything works fine but my settings for display configuration and my taksbar get ...
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How to find out which files have defined “alias”es?
When I run the alias command, I see an alias which I don't know where it has been defined (i.e. I cannot find the file which contains definition of this alias). I have checked /etc/profile, ~/.bashrc, ...
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~/.bash_profile not executed upon login, but ~/.profile is [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu, with Gnome3 as my desktop manager. While debugging some initialization issues (the usual confusion over bash_profile, bashrc, etc.), I found that given the following files,
# ~/....
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What to do when .profile does not exist for editing PATH?
I want to edit my $PATH environment variable. According to several tutorials and other sources (e.g. this Q&A), the most common way is to edit ~/.profile. However, for me, no such file exists. ...
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$HOME/bin dir is not on the $PATH
In my ~/.profile I have a last block which should load my personal bin/ directory like this:
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:...
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Are .bashrc and .zshrc the wrong place for environment variables? [duplicate]
I have updated the question after an answer to a related question : see the later pragraphs.
When I startup spacemacs I get the following warning:
You appear to be setting environment variables ("...
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Why can't I add this custom Node PATH to /etc/profile.d scripts?
I may have a problem in the include chain for the profiles, or something may be awry in either my system, or my understanding of profile.d (RHEL7).
I added a /etc/profile.d .sh script which is for a ...
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Welcome banner stopping scp
Our team decided to add a welcome banner to all our hosts. A team member, instead of adding the message in /etc/motd added the message with echo in ~/.cshrc.
This is breaking scp between the hosts. ...
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Where are the Shell Profile Settings Stored?
I just broke a machine running Linux Mint with KDE 4. Thankfully I managed to back up /home/, so I have all my data. Now I've installed Kubuntu with KDE 5, and I'm trying to configure my Shell ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Scripts in /etc/profile.d
I am currently trying to setup some bash definitions (functions, variables) that need to be available for all the users that access a workstation. I have created shell scripts with .sh extension in /...
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Why have both .bash_profile and .bashrc? [duplicate]
What is the point of having both .bash_profile and .bashrc, with the former typically sourcing the latter, which in turn sources /etc/bashrc upon login? What would be the downside of putting all that ...
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Would replacing sourced bash functions with executables decrease startup time
A typical bash setup, sourcees additional dotfiles on startup which obviously increases the startup time.
Is there an be any benefit of moving the contents of a function to its own executable file?
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Different bash profile files are loaded? For local and ssh-remote access to Cygwin
I have installed g++ package on Cygwin. so I see the following output in Cygwin:
Input:$ which g++
Output: /cygdrive/c/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.2.0-posix-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin
I have also installed ...
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Find out what scripts are being run by bash on startup
After starting a bash terminal, I noticed that the PATH variable contains duplicate entries. My terminal starts a login shell, so ~/.bash_profile is sourced, followed by ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc. Only ...
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How can I restore the Bash prompt?
For work I just did source .profile from other user, but it changed my bash prompt.
It used to be
[leche@xxx home]$
[leche@xxx home]$
And now it appears like:
[leche@xxx] [10:18 AM$] /home $
$
[...
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solaris 11 zone sysconfig profile for ipmp
How to create sysidcfg profile with ipmp? Let's say we have such network config:
root@zone1:~# ipadm
NAME CLASS/TYPE STATE UNDER ADDR
ipmp_bkp ipmp ok ...
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Run script from .profile
I want to put all the environment variables and aliases into a separate file.
Here is my ~/.profile
/c/webProj/myprofile
Here is the /c/webProj/myprofile :
PATH=$PATH:./node_modules/.bin
alias gs="...
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Have a command in my $PATH, but it is not being recognized when I use sudo [duplicate]
I’m using Ubuntu 14.04. I’m having trouble getting a command picked up in my $PATH using sudo. I have added this to my /root/.profile file
# ~/.profile: executed by Bourne-compatible login shells.
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Running program in .profile prevents GUI startx
I want to run a python program that polls the keyboard on startup/login to my raspberry pi.
Previous attempts included cron jobs (failed due to lack of stdin or stdout).
rc.local also failed as it ...
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Set environment variables for gnome on wayland and bash on virtual terminals (or ssh)
Gnome 3.22 uses wayland by default. Gnome on wayland does not read ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile). See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736660.
I have my initialization ...
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Where do /root/.bashrc and /root/.profile come from on a Debian system?
Normally when you add a user on a Debian system, the contents of /etc/skel/ are copied into the new user's home directory. But /root/.bashrc does not match /etc/skel/.bashrc and /root/.profile does ...
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What are the meanings of IO-related rates? [closed]
I found in the manual short explanations for the abbreviations. But I have no idea about what their values stand for (how large is good, how large is bad).
How do I know if the IO is too busy and ...
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Functions in ~/.bash_profile not found in an interactive shell [duplicate]
I thought that whatever lies in .bash_profile(or .profile) which is sourced in a login-shell, is available in an interactive shell.
My goal is to have available a list of functions, either in a login ...
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What happened to mate-terminal?
I did apt-get dist-upgrade to my Kali (rolling) and suddenly mate-terminal (1.14.0-1) went mad. No more transparent backgrounds but what really made me rip my shorts was the seeming inability to bring ...
