Funny item in "set"

[Carl Lowenstein]

> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:58:09 -0800
> From: John Oliver <joliver at oliver.escondido.ca.us>
> To: kplug-list at kernel-panic.org
> Subject: Funny item in "set"
>
> Whenever I check my environment variables on this machine, at the very
> end I get:
>
> mc=()
> {
>     mkdir -p ~/.mc/tmp 2>/dev/null;
>     chmod 700 ~/.mc/tmp;
>     MC=~/.mc/tmp/mc-$$;
>     /usr/bin/mc -P "$@" >"$MC";
>     cd "`cat $MC`";
>     rm -i -f "$MC";
>     unset MC
> }
> screen=()
> {
>     if [ -z "$SCREENDIR" ]; then
>         export SCREENDIR=$HOME/tmp;
>     fi;
>     /usr/bin/screen $@
> }            
>
Those are shell functions.  (BASH, that is).

They are given to you by the sytem-wide profile scripts contained in
/etc/profile.d. 

The preceding advice may be RedHat specific, I don't know for sure.

    carl