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[James Wilkinson]

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote about putting changes in .bashrc and
.profile.

Matthew S-H asked:
> But will this also apply to scripts invoked from Nautilus?

You know, there's a great deal to be said for setting stuff like PATH
explicitly in the script itself.

If you want a script to be robust, try not to assume too much about the
system you're running on. If a command might not be there, do a
COMMAND=$(which command)
[ -x "$COMMAND" ] || exit
$COMMAND

Sooner or later, the chances are you'll want to run that script on
another system.

And, while I think about it, consider using
cd $NEWDIR || exit
in scripts, not just plain cd.

Otherwise, a script with
cd /home
prog1
cd /tmp/tmpdir
rm -rf *

could turn a system with broken permissions on /tmp into a catastrophe.

Not particularly relevant to the original question, I suppose...

James.

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