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[Matthew S-H]

But will this also apply to scripts invoked from Nautilus?

~Matt


On Apr 20, 2005, at 1:15 PM, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 07:28 -0400, Matthew S-H wrote:
>> Ooopsies.  YAY!  I solved a problem by myself and never knew it....
>> But I am not quite sure that you/I was right.  "~/.bashrc" is only
>> executed for interactive shells (I think---correct me if i'm wrong).
>> And therefore, your PATH is only changed for interactive shells.  For
>> some scripts, which might benefit from a changed PATH, it would cause
>> a problem.
>>
>>
>> ~Matt
> True.  Here's a trick I've bee using since, like, forever.
> Here's what is in my "~/.bashrc":
>         [ -r "${HOME}/.profile" ] && source "${HOME}/.profile"
> and here's what "~/.profile" contains:
>         [ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile
>
> ("~/.profile" does the same thing as "~/.bash_profile".  I don't have
> "~/.bash_profile".  The difference between the two is that "~/.profile"
> is for all "sh" and compatible shells (like ksh, and bash) while
> "~/.bash_profile" is specific for bash only.)
>
> This way, I have the same setting no matter if it's a/an
> (non-)interactive and/or (non-)login shell as all use "/etc/profile"
> only.  There, I put my default settings for *all* users which is what I
> want.  (The only exception is the root user which has the same 
> ~/.bashrc
> but different ~/.profile than the rest of the users.)
>
> Ziyad.
>
>
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