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    1010<indexterm zone="ch-scripts-profile"><primary sortas="e-/etc/profile">/etc/profile</primary></indexterm>
    1111
    12 <para>The shell program <command>/bin/bash</command> (hereafter
    13 referred to as just <quote>the shell</quote>) uses a collection of startup files to
    14 help create an environment to run in.  Each file has a specific use and
    15 may affect login and interactive environments differently.  The files in
    16 the <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> directory generally provide global
    17 settings. If an equivalent file exists in your home directory it may
    18 override the global settings.
    19 </para>
    20 
    21 <para>An interactive login shell is started after a successful login, using
    22 <command>/bin/login</command>, by reading the
    23 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file.  An
    24 interactive non-login shell is started at the command-line (e.g.,
    25 <prompt>[prompt]$</prompt><command>/bin/bash</command>).  A non-interactive
    26 shell is usually present when a shell script is running.  It is non-interactive
    27 because it is processing a script and not waiting for user input between
    28 commands.</para>
    29 
    30 <para>For more information see <command>info bash</command> --
    31 <emphasis role="strong">Nodes: Bash Startup Files and Interactive
    32 Shells.</emphasis></para>
    33 
    34 <para>The files <filename>/etc/profile</filename> and
    35 <filename>~/.bash_profile</filename> are read when the shell is invoked
    36 as an interactive login shell.</para>
    37 
    38 <para>A base <filename>/etc/profile</filename> created below sets some
    39 environment variables necessary for native language support. By setting them
    40 properly, you get:
    41 </para>
    42 <itemizedlist>
    43 <listitem><para>the output of programs translated into your native
    44 language;</para></listitem>
    45 <listitem><para>correct classification of characters into letters, digits and
    46 other classes - this is necessary for Bash to accept non-ASCII characters
    47 in command lines properly in non-English locales;</para></listitem>
    48 <listitem><para>the alphabetical sorting order correct for your
    49 country;</para></listitem>
    50 <listitem><para>good default paper size;</para></listitem>
    51 <listitem><para>correct formatting of monetary, time and date
    52 values.</para></listitem>
    53 </itemizedlist>
    54 
    55 <para>This script also sets the INPUTRC environment variable that makes
    56 <application>Bash</application> and <application>Readline</application> use
    57 the <filename>/etc/inputrc</filename> file we created earlier.</para>
    58 
    59 <para>Replace <replaceable>[ll]</replaceable> below with the
    60 two-letter code for your language (e.g., <quote>en</quote>) and
    61 <replaceable>[CC]</replaceable> with the two-letter code for your country
    62 (e.g., <quote>GB</quote>). Also you may need to specify
    63 (and this is actually the preferred form) your
    64 character encoding (e.g. <quote>iso8859-1</quote>) after a dot
    65 (so that the result is <quote>en_GB.iso8859-1</quote>).
    66 Issue the following command for more information:</para>
    67 
    68 <screen><userinput>man 3 setlocale</userinput></screen>
    69 
    70 <para>The list of all locales supported by Glibc can be obtained by running
    71 the following command:</para>
    72 
    73 <screen><userinput>locale -a</userinput></screen>
    74 
    75 <para>Now, when you are sure about your locale settings, create the
    76 <filename>/etc/profile</filename> file:</para>
     12<para>Create the <filename>/etc/profile</filename> file:</para>
    7713
    7814<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/profile &lt;&lt; "EOF"
    … …  
    8622EOF</userinput></screen>
    8723
    88 <note><para>The <quote>C</quote> (default) and <quote>en_US</quote>
    89 (the recommended one for US English users) locales are
    90 different.</para></note>
    91 
    92 <para>Setting the keyboard layout,
    93 the screen font and the locale-related environment variables
    94 are the only internationalization steps needed to support
    95 locales that use ordinary single-byte encodings and left-to-right
    96 writing direction. More complex cases (including UTF-8 based locales)
    97 require additional steps and additional patches because many applications
    98 tend to break in such conditions. Because of too little educational
    99 value for a typical reader, these steps and patches are not included
    100 in the LFS book and such locales are not supported by LFS in any way.
    101 </para>
    10224</sect1>
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