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# this script cannot handle figuring out where it lives, so approaches that
-# get the WORKDIR will fail. this is a consequence of this always being used
+# get the THISDIR will fail. this is a consequence of this always being used
# in bash's 'source' directive, which does not pass the script name as
# argument 0. instead, we just check for the bad condition of a malconfigured
# script system and try to repair it.
# some preconditions we want to establish before loading anything...
# make sure that aliases can be used in non-interactive shells.
+ # this causes all aliases that are currently defined for this shell to
+ # be inherited by subshells that this shell starts. this is unusual,
+ # but is preferred for my workflow in feisty meow scripts; it saves me
+ # time re-adding aliases if i can count on them already being there.
+ # this is a problem if you *don't* want the aliases there though. we can
+ # solve that problem by running bash with the "-O expand_aliases" flags to
+ # stop the expansion for the next subshell.
shopt -s expand_aliases
# patch the user variable if we were launched by one of our cron jobs.
if [ -z "$USER" -a ! -z "$CRONUSER" ]; then
export USER="$CRONUSER"
fi
+
+ # use the xauth info if we were given one in the environment.
+ # this allows root or other su'd identities to create windows with same
+ # display variable.
+ if [ ! -z "$DISPLAY" -a ! -z "$IMPORTED_XAUTH" ]; then
+ xauth add $DISPLAY . $IMPORTED_XAUTH
+ fi
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# only run this hello file if the core feisty meow support haven't been loaded already. this
# hopefully guarantees we show the info at most once in one shell continuum.
+ # this can also be disabled if the NO_HELLO variable has a non-empty value.
type CORE_VARIABLES_LOADED &>/dev/null
- if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+ if [ $? -ne 0 -a -z "$NO_HELLO" ]; then
# print out a personalized hello file if we find one.
if [ -f ~/hello.txt ]; then
echo
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echo
fi
+ # from now on there should be no extra helloing.
+ export NO_HELLO=true
fi
# load the last bits we do here.