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The second paragraph is interesting. Since different shells support different syntax, this would require that there be a significant common syntax. True for bash and sh, but I don't think so for others like csh or tcsh, which have their own global login startup scripts. On many systems, /bin/sh is just a link to /bin/bash. But bash modifies its behavior to be posix-compliant when invoked as sh. So one would think that authors of scripts in /etc/profile.d would need to be careful to avoid using bash extensions outside the posix subset.

sootsnoot
– sootsnoot

2014-10-10 06:28:05 +00:00
Commented Oct 10, 2014 at 6:28
Under linux there are separate .csh and .sh files for the two major shell types.

stark
– stark

2015-01-13 14:25:06 +00:00
Commented Jan 13, 2015 at 14:25
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/etc/profile is not processed by all shells. zsh does not. At least not on debian 11.

RichieHH
– RichieHH

2020-12-06 09:05:39 +00:00
Commented Dec 6, 2020 at 9:05

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