[Gllug] Best Way To Set Global Env Variables and Path?

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Tue Mar 11 10:42:42 UTC 2003


And verily, didst Mick Farmer announce to the hordes:
> 
> Dear Jason & fellow GLLUGers,
> 
> The correct solution depends on which shell the user is
> invoking.  This is necessary because the various shells use
> different syntax for environment variables.
> 
> Certainly /etc/profile.d has bash/csh/sh scripts, but I'm
> unsure about the behaviour of their more esoteric brethren,
> e.g. tcsh, ...  Do they even read this directory?

tcsh shares the same syntax as csh, so I can't see why not.

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