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From:	"Ross Boulet" <ross AT rossb DOT com>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Handling of /etc/profile.d broken?
Date:	Mon, 3 May 2004 11:58:59 -0500
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In-Reply-To:	<KCEOLMMHICICJKHPFOALAEDGCDAA.Jan.Schormann@BrainLAB.com>
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> Hi,
> 
> I've just noticed a weird problem:
> When I set an environment variable in a script in
> /etc/profile.d, I never see it in my shell.
> For example, take
> 
> ---- /etc/profile.d/blub.sh:
> export blub=1
> ----
> 
> Adding "echo $blub" to the loop in /etc/profile,
> I can see that it gets set, but is unset immediately
> after the loop.
> 
> The attached patch changes the loop from the
> "find ... | while ..." idiom to "for f in `find ...` ...",
> and that works.
> 
> Is it true that the "|" starts a new sub-shell, which
> makes all the "export" commands and the use of the
> "source" (".") obsolete? What a pity.
> 
> I wonder whether it has been like that all the time,
> and I'm the only one who's so stupid as to try and set
> environment variables in /etc/profile.d?
> 
> Funny world ;-) Any hints?
> 
> Best wishes,
> 	Jan.

WFM under both bash and pdksh.




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