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Programmatically determining shell profile file
My script needs to inject an alias into shell profile file. That script may be run in bash (so it would inject the alias into ~/.bashrc) or zshell (~/.zshrc) or any other shell. Is there a way to get ...
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Precedence of profile files
On my work machine (which I do not have sudo access on), I change my $PATH variable in my ~/.profile. However, I am finding that some scripts in /etc/profile.d are changing the path further, making my ...
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Bash: ".profile" not loaded despite nonexistance of .bash_profile or .bash_login (Debian 10)
Reading the documentation in ~/.profile, on my Debian system, it is stated that
# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ...
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$PATH variable is messed up, where is it being sourced from in Mac Catalina
When I echo $PATH in terminal, I see a big string that kind of looks messed and has some old irrelevant paths. I would like to fix this. But first, I'd like to understand when I echo $PATH in terminal,...
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Terminal gets closed as soon as I start it
I have newly given ubuntu 16.04.
I wanted my terminal to execute command during start up so I go to:
Edit -> profile preferences -> run a custom command instead of my shell
There I wrote the ...
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~/.bash_profile not source from symlinked login shell
If I call
bash --login
Then ~/.bash_profile is called. This seems as it should.
I also have /bin/sh symlinked to bash
$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 22 2017 /bin/sh -> bash
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"fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" from git in MacOS El Capitan
Sometimes when I am using Git and cannot do a sudo command, it reports
fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
What does this mean, and what should I do about it?
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