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Re: GNU screen not seeing $SHELL env var?
On Wed 6/20/12 8:07 MDT Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/20/2012 07:20 AM, Tom Rodman wrote:
>
> > $ echo $SHELL
> > /bin/bash
> > $ bash -c 'echo SHELL: $SHELL' # does this prove SHELL is exported?
> > SHELL: /bin/bash
>
> No. And in fact, bash does not export SHELL by default, but defaults to
> defining SHELL as a shell-local variable. You have to explicitly export
> it yourself if you want child processes to see it.
OK. Thanks, good to know that.
--
Still, not sure why I have to export the SHELL var to GNU screen
now since in the past several years I have not done this.
Recently I stopped using 'putty -ssh localhost' for my terminal,
and I'm using 'rxvt' instead, but I can not see why that would
matter. In Linux, 'screen' sets up login shells correctly, I
use the same ~/.screenrc for both cygwin and linux, and I'm not
exporting SHELL to screen in linux.
Non cygwin question: what is the best way to tell GNU screen to
read /etc/passwd to get SHELL, and start all new screen windows
with login shells?
--
thanks,
Tom
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