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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:23:02 +0300
From: Raul Metsma <raul AT vihmapuu DOT ee>
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Subject: Re: who is setting the NAME variable in bash?
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Andrew Schulman 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.
> 

Search from bashrc scripts "PS1" variable


Raul Metsma

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