Configuring terminal and referencing username in bash scripts.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

If the script is in the home directory of the user, ./script.sh should do
it.  The terminal has menus accessible with the super key then use arrows
to navigate and enter to activate.


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On Thu, 27 Apr 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

>     If it uses Mate terminal, the .bash_profile doesn't get read by default. 
> You could put them in .bashrc and it should read them when the terminal is
> opened.  I think .bashrc is read every time a shell is invoked, so that is
> something to be aware of.
>
> You can also have Mate terminal invoke a script for you, but I've never done
> that.  Type man mate-terminal.
>
>
>
>
> > 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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