On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 05:46:14PM -0400, Allan Streib wrote:
>"tetrahedra@danwin1210.me" <tetrahedra@danwin1210.me> writes:
>
>> It looks like the custom $PATH is not being passed from the login shell
>> on downwards, since ~/.profile is only read by a login shell.
>
>I just was looking into the same thing last night. The ksh shell in the
>xterm didn't seem to be processing my .profile. Adding the '-ls'
>argument to the xterm command resolved that.
>
> -ls This option indicates that the shell that is started in the
> xterm window will be a login shell (i.e., the first character
> of argv[0] will be a dash, indicating to the shell that it
> should read the user's .login or .profile).
Thanks. Yes, that would work, but I feel like the contents of ~/.profile
should be available to other commands as well, not just the xterm
window.
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