I am aware of a lot of pitfalls in the magic world of crontabs, but sometimes it would help troubleshooting a lot when you have some smart way to enter an interactive (bash) shell with exact identical environment as when a shell script is run from a crontab.
I’m using zsh and gdm to run gnome. Some time ago I discovered that variables are not set correctly. For example LANG/LC_ALL are incorrect ("" instead of en_GB.UTF-8).
On Ubuntu 12.04, when I sudo -s the $HOME variable is not changed, so if my regular user is regularuser, the situation goes like this:
I’d like to have a German (Austria) locale (A4 paper size, 24 hour time, yyyy-mm-dd), but an English-language user interface (I don’t like poor translations). I figured that the correct way to achieve this is to set the LC_ variables as follows in my .bashrc (please correct me if I’m wrong):
I have the following code that’s source-d by my .shellrc PATH="${PATH}:${HOME}/perl5/bin" PATH="${PATH}:${HOME}/.bin" export PATH but if I make changes to other code and then source this file, my path continues to get longer and longer with each source, each time appending these when they’re already there. What can I do to prevent this? Answers: Thank … Read more
$ k=v p & [1] 3028 is there any way for p to change the contents of /proc/3028/environ to not mention k=v while p is still running? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them … Read more
I know that VARIABLE=value creates an environment variable, and export VARIABLE=value makes it available to processes created by the current shell. env shows the current environment variables, but where do they live? What comprises an environment variable (or an environment, for that matter)?
I’m trying to perform environment variable replacement through envsubst, but I want to only replace specific variables.
I started to ask this question but answered it while I had it open. I’m going to post this question, follow it up with my solution and leave it open to other potential solutions.
I recently switched from rxvt-unicode to st. This means I went from $TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color to $TERM=st-256color.