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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH
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Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 22:21:16 +0100
In-Reply-To: <op.x9cf2njrofd6j1@frascati.upc.de> (Helmut Karlowski's message	of "Tue, 08 Dec 2015 22:17:01 +0100")
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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.


Regards,
Achim.
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