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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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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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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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"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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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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How to store and print variables with special characters in shell/bash/sh/
I basically need to load, save and reload multiple times and in different forms a variable that contains arguments for a program.
The problem is that this variable can't be treated as a usual variable ...
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Is it safe to copy user's .bashrc to /root/.bashrc?
I am running Debian. The default /root/.bashrc is kinda empty. So if I do sudo -i to login as root, there are many things are not setup properly. Normally, I just do the following:
$ sudo -i
# mv ....
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it does not work the creation of environment variable permanent using a script.sh in linux
I am using this script:
#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Iniciando servicio"
export http_proxy=socks5://192.168.1.2:9090
export https_proxy <----I don't want it exported
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Can't export environment variables on X session start
My setup is:
Debian testing (stretch), up to date
LightDM with autologin enabled
Awesome window manager
bash, in ROXTerm or XTerm
I don't seem to be able to set own environment variables and get it ...
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Using export USER=myName doesn't change the output of whoami
I saw this example
$ whoami
MatsP
$ g++ -Wall -std=c++0x getenv.cpp
$ ./a.out
MatsP
$ export USER=DonaldDuck
$ ./a.out
DonaldDuck
but for me it doesn't work. I am in a Debian machine. I used export ...
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When did bash quit exporting SHELL?
I upgraded a Debian box from stable to Jessie and I noticed that SHELL is no longer exported, so screen and similar programs start dash for subshells instead of bash.
When was this change made and ...
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