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Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster
Date 2021-04-10 21:30 +0200
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 01:21:21PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> My start-up files, .bash_profile, .bashrc, and other files that
> they source, contain permanent printf commands. When they finish
> printing their output, the next thing that's going to happen is
> that the shell will emit a prompt. So there's a certain elegance
> in using that very prompt as the condition.
> 
> The thread, and my comment, was about the topic under discussion,
> startup files, not scripts in general. Using PS1 as a condition
> in the latter is unlikely to make much sense at all.

I'm not a fan of it, because I actually like to export PS1, rather
than setting it in .bashrc every time.  I may be in the minority there.

Testing whether stdout is a terminal is a more reliable test than seeing
whether PS1 happens to be set.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 06:59:21PM +0000, Lee wrote:
> Can you give an example of profiles that scribble to stderr during
> login breaking things like scp?  I've tried to create that situation,
> but can't.

Maybe you're right.  I haven't touched that stuff in many years, so I
might be repeating outdated advice, or I might have been making incorrect
assumptions all along.

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.profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-04-07 14:20 +0200
  Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-04-07 14:30 +0200
    Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-04-07 17:30 +0200
    Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-04-07 17:40 +0200
  Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-07 14:40 +0200
  Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-07 17:10 +0200
  Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2021-04-07 17:20 +0200
    Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-07 17:40 +0200
      Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-07 18:40 +0200
        Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Marco Ippolito <maroloccio@gmail.com> - 2021-04-07 23:20 +0200
          Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2021-04-07 23:50 +0200
            Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Marco Ippolito <maroloccio@gmail.com> - 2021-04-08 14:30 +0200
            Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-10 20:30 +0200
              Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2021-04-10 21:00 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-10 21:30 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-11 16:20 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-11 16:50 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2021-04-11 19:10 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-11 20:00 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-12 17:20 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-12 17:30 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-12 18:10 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-11 16:20 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-11 16:50 +0200
                Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-12 17:20 +0200
      Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2021-04-07 23:50 +0200
        Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-08 00:10 +0200
          Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-04-08 10:20 +0200
            Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-04-08 12:20 +0200
              Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-08 13:30 +0200
            Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-08 13:40 +0200

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