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Subject: Re: [Attn: base-files maintainer] Changing /etc/profile to add more shell-dependent settings
From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:20:13 -0500
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On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 16:52 +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> The /etc/defaults/etc/profile file in base-files has a section at the
> end to import scripts in /etc/profile.d, but this currently only works
> with zsh.

Bash is covered by the "profile_d sh" command therein.

> Can this section be expanded to make calls as appropriate for other
> shells?  I'm particularly interested in Fish and Bash, although I don't
> see any reason to limit the change to those shells.

Note that /etc/profile is only for Bourne-compatible shells; those that
are not must use their own mechanism to accomplish the same thing (e.g.
tcsh in /etc/csh.cshrc).  As fish has a different syntax, it may fall
into this category as well.

--
Yaakov




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