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On 12/6/2016 9:49 AM, Charlie Perkins wrote:
> Hello anyone,
>
> Could someone tell me what profile_d does?
>
> There doesn't seem to be a man page, info, or any way I can find out!

It's defined in /etc/profile, shortly before the call to 'profile_d sh'. 
  The latter runs all the *.sh scripts in /etc/profile.d, with some 
fiddling to get locales right.

> I'm getting the following errors from profile_d when /etc/profile
> invokes  'profile_d sh':
>
>> -bash: [: too many arguments
>> -bash: [: =: unary operator expected
>> -bash: [: =: unary operator expected
>> -bash: [: =: unary operator expected
>> -bash: [: =: unary operator expected
>> -bash: [: too many arguments
>> -bash: [: =: unary operator expected
>> -bash: [: =: unary operator expected
>> -bash: [: =: unary operator expected
>> -bash: [: =: unary operator expected
>> -bash: [: =: unary operator expected

I'm guessing that these errors are generated by the line

   if [ "${_LC_SAVE_}" = "null" ]; then

in the definition of profile_d.  Is LC_ALL defined in your environment? 
Does it have spaces in it?

Ken

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