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how do I setup VULKAN_SDK environment variables in Debian/Raspberry Pi Os
First things first; I am new to Linux and I don't understand a lot of things.
I'm working on a Raspberry Pi OS which is Debian based.
There is a file with environment variables: "setup-env.sh&...
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Why is bash startup executed under non-interactive ssh
I see an unexplained difference in behavior with ssh on Linux and FreeBSD, and it is the FreeBSD behavior that I would expect from the plain language of the manpages. So, something extra happens on ...
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Is there an env var 'SSH_PWD', and how do I use it to restore my last 'pwd' prior to logout?
The lab has several "Raspberry Pi" machines which run a Debian-flavor OS. They are used for specific purposes - which is to say that after I make an SSH connection, I cd to the folder where &...
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Why the docker-compose.yml environment overrides the .env file content?
I have a docker container that is set up using docker-compose.yml and I introduce a couple of environment variables in it:
environment:
- AUTH_SECRET=some_secret
Then I have these ...
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Environment variables not passed to the user
Even though I set ENVIRONMENT=production in /etc/environment and DefaultEnvironment=ENVIRONMENT=production in /etc/systemd/system.conf the variable ENVIRONMENT (which should be global by now) is not ...
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What shell/env variable contains commandline suggestions?
Many years ago someone once showed me that if your shell returned a command suggestion then you could access it from a shell or environment variable. I thought this was very cool at the time but I ...
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Modify or remove specific environment variables on every logout
Whenever a (graphical) logout occurs on Debian 11, I want to conditionally (e.g. if $XDG_DEBUG == 1, then ...) set or clear specific environment variables for the active user. The environment ...
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On Linux/Debian should .bashrc have anything set for python/python3 and if so what?
What should be in the .bashrc for python/python3 on Debian11/KDE?
To verify the environment variable is correct, what should echo $PATH display? which python3 displays /usr/bin/python3.
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What could cause the environment variables to not get loaded from ~/.bashrc at boot?
On one of my Debian11/KDE machines which uses X11, the environment variables don't get loaded from ~/.bashrc at boot and echo $PATH only prints very few (but not none!) variables. After booting I have ...
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[?2004l characters when login through ssh in debian
I have recently modified the $PS1 environment variable in /etc/bash.bashrc in Debian. To make those changes in my current session, I thought that I could restart bash.bashrc with:
. /etc/bash.bashrc
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"sudo bash -s --" without changing $HOME?
I'd like to run a trusted script from the internet with the sudo command like so:
sudo curl https://example.org/my-trusted-example.script.sh | sudo bash -s --
The script is using the $HOME variable. ...
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doas doesn't run a /usr/sbin binary
I'm using Debian/GNU/Linux Unstable,
and I was trying doas for the first time today, with the following simple config file:
$ doas cat /etc/doas.conf
permit persist alx as root
While it worked for ...
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Why not prepend user directory to PATH?
For user scripts, the usual advice is to append their directory to $PATH in one's .profile:
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.myscripts" # or .bin or whatever
Apparently that is safer than prepending it: ...
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Behaviour of crontab -e and environmental variables or configuration of default editor ( Debian )
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-17-amd64
Architecture: x86-64
I am studying behavior of crontab -e. Are following assumptions correct?
crontab -e edits the crontab ...
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Where are my Environment Variables? (Searched all ordinary places) [duplicate]
Thanks to @ilkkachu I found a solution to this. I have posted it here and you can find it in the comments as well.
I want to unset one environment variable and I have searched all these places:
~/....
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