Configuring terminal and referencing username in bash scripts.

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Hello

Terminal emulator does not care those files but check what shell you are 
using
echo $SHELL


You can find all environmet variables with command
env
to see if some of them will tell current username.



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  Linux for blind general discussion kirjoitti
> Subject: Configuring terminal and referencing username in bash scripts.
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 22:22:49
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> 
> Okay, so I've been using a ~/.bash_profile file with the following contents:
>
> rm -f ~/.bash_history
> export PS1='$(tty | sed 's#^/dev/tty##')\$'
> export PATH=~/Programming/bash-scripts:$PATH
>
> To clear the command history from the previous session, change the
> prompt to something extremely short instead of the default user at host
> /path/to/working/directory, and to add the directory where I store my
> bash scripts to my path.
>
> It works when logging into the console, but I recently bought a new
> desktop and decided to give running a full desktop a go since I'm no
> longer running a 12-year-old CPU with 4GB of RAM, and whichever
> terminal emulator Debian Mate uses by default is clearly ignoring
> ~/.bash_profile.
>
> So is there somewhere I can put the above lines so they'll besourced
> both when logging into a text-only console and when launching a
> terminal emulator?
>
> Also, I have some scripts to automate sshing into some remote hosts or
> mounting the remote filesystems locally, and part of it involves
> creating a mounttt point that needs to be chown to my user. Is there a
> shell variable I can use to make these scripts work for any user
> instead of needing to edit the script to use the name of the user I'm
> logged in as?
>
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