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Re: GNU screen not seeing $SHELL env var?
On Jun 20 09:53, Tom Rodman wrote:
> 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, ...
Brr. Why don't you use mintty instead? rxvt is old, unmaintained,
and it doesn't support UTF-8.
Corinna
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