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Re: [PATCH] Read /etc/environment first to allow changing environment fr
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Danny Milosavljevic |
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Re: [PATCH] Read /etc/environment first to allow changing environment from user profile |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:31:42 +0200 |
> while read line; do export "$line"; done < /etc/environment
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> I don't know if Guix even cares about non-bash shells, but this should™
> work in all POSIX®-compliant ones[4]. It's also more readable.
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> Thoughts? Gotchas?
Spaces in keys and/or values don't work that way. The read itself already has
problems with them. You might try setting IFS="
" but not sure whether that's standards-compliant.
Also, does csh actually support "export"? The one I have in Solaris doesn't.
You need to do "setenv" there.