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From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [Attn: base-files maintainer] Changing /etc/profile to add more shell-dependent settings
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444839613.11904.6.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151014155256.GN14466@dinwoodie.org>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-14 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-14 15:53 Adam Dinwoodie
2015-10-14 16:20 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-14 16:20 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2015-10-14 16:32   ` Adam Dinwoodie
2015-10-14 16:53 ` Achim Gratz
2015-10-14 17:14   ` Adam Dinwoodie
2015-10-14 18:35     ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-14 18:49       ` Adam Dinwoodie
2015-10-14 20:15     ` Achim Gratz

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