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When ETC profile is executed?
Whereas a non-Interactive shell is used when a user cannot interact with the shell, i.e. a bash scripts execution. The difference is simple, the /etc/profile is executed only for interactive shells and the /etc/bashrc is executed for both interactive and non-interactive shells.
How do you run a script in a script?
There are a couple of different ways you can do this:
- Make the other script executable, add the #!/bin/bash line at the top, and the path where the file is to the $PATH environment variable.
- Or call it with the source command (alias is . )
- Or use the bash command to execute it: /bin/bash /path/to/script ;
What is ETC profile D for?
d. This directory contains files configuring system-wide behavior of specific programs and site-specific environment customization. As seen previously, these scripts are run from the /etc/profile script. This would be where the administrator can place customization scripts of their own.
What does ETC profile?
/etc/profile contains Linux system wide environment and startup programs. It is used by all users with bash, ksh, sh shell. Usually used to set PATH variable, user limits, and other settings for user. It only runs for login shell.
What do the scripts in / etc / profile.d do?
It says that the /etc/profile file sets the environment variables at startup of the Bash shell. The /etc/profile.d directory contains other scripts that contain application-specific startup files, which are also executed at startup time by the shell.
Where to put application specific setups in profile.d?
/etc/profile.d/ is a good place to put your application specific setups. For example, I always use SSH for CVS (cf. RSH). So I use:
Why are these files not part of / etc / profile?
The /etc/profile.d directory contains other scripts that contain application-specific startup files, which are also executed at startup time by the shell. Why are these files not a part of /etc/profile if they are also critical to Bash startup ? If these files are application-specific startup files not…
Do you run a cron job under SH?
Some flavors of Unix, cron jobs run under sh, each line of your Makefile is processed by sh, so if you’re working across multiple flavors of UNIX, it really pays to keep your .profile Bourne shell compatible. As a SysAdmin, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve helped someone by fixing up their .profile to be Bourne Shell compatible.