Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster
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might be repeating outdated advice, or I might have been making incorrect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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