Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: bash
Hi,
there's a bug in /etc/skel/.bashrc:
It calls the program lesspipe and evals it's output.
But the syntax of the environment commands that lesspipe spits out
depends on the SHELL environment variable.
Thus, if a user has a SHELL variable other than any sh dialect,
(e.g. tcsh), and runs bash, lesspipe issues csh-compatible commands
which are incompatible to sh. It fails to work and issues annoying
error messages.
replace
eval "$(lesspipe)"
with
eval "$(env SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"
regards
Hadmut
** Affects: bash (Ubuntu)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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/etc/skel/.bashrc - lesspipe problem
https://launchpad.net/bugs/58103
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