@EliahKagan I didn't realise you had written an answer to this question

thank you for doing that!

In every version of Ubuntu I've read my .profile in and have a clear memory of, which is 16.04 - 17.10, there was this code

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

so maybe I misunderstand where you write that's only in older versions of Ubuntu

@Zanna you can have that in .bashrc or in .profile it only changes the time this is made available. in profile this is available as soon the user logs in, in bashrc it is only available if the user opens a terminal.

or do I now misunderstand?

@Videonauth this is about an answer written by Eliah Kagan. I'm not confused about what this code does or where it should go, I'm just confused about which versions of Ubuntu have a ~/.profile file that contains exactly this code, and not a different version of it without the test :)

uhhh, sorry hun, im not going to install one VM after another to test.

on 17.10 it is :

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then

so in fact it would not matter where it happens anyways since .profile sources .bashrc

No need for you to do anything at all :) I think Eliah has written something possibly wrong (but not at all dangerously wrong) or that I have misunderstood it. I am just mentioning it so that he can fix whichever one of those things is in need of fixing when/if he comes back here

yeah havn't seen him lately, guess hes with family and in holiday mood

:)

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BTW thanks for posting a text-processing question :D

@Zanna no problem, i just not accepted it yet to not discourage other answerers :) guess i will accept terdons answer tho

oh that is entirely by the by. I am just happy there was a question I could enjoy answering

yes there might be more, im actually in the process of automating some things on my DEBIAN 8 server :P

guess i forgot to mention debian in my question ....

evil grin

well Debian (and every other Linux distro) has GNU sed afaik

yes i know this is why i not mentioned what version im using

or what OS

sed and awk are both GNU utils which are existent in every linux across the world

terdon didn't use awk but head sed and grep (while I only used sed)

yes there is still place for some great answers using awk, python2.7, python 3.3-3.5 and python 3.6

indeed :D

darn people with their fireworks :( not that it is illegal in germany to have fireworks on other days as silvester it scares my kitty :( now she is hiding in a corner and wont come out

awww

:(

heck she not even comes out of her hiding spot for treats

makes me so angry

anyways im against fireworks

sure it looks pretty and so on, but we should not fire millions in money up the air as long there are people starving in this world

sidenote: I not fired a single firework since I was 10 yo

I agree with you, although I wish that structures of economic exploitation could be universally eliminated just by refraining from using fireworks

also, like your kitty, I don't like having loud scary noises imposed on me

well im now 45 1/2 and have not fired a single firework because of my belief in the last 35 years

Did you know that cat's experience any sounds about 70 times louder as we hear them?

I did not!

so imagine when it is a nuisance to us, how it must be to have that nuisance multiplied by 70

D:

I know my kitty pretty well, when i make for example a fresh trashbag in the trashcan, i let her see what im doing and give her time to escape from the noise it makes when flicking the bag open from its folded form

or when i hoover, i give her as well time to leave the room before i start the engines

earned a few days ago

@Videonauth :) sweet

and it seems im going to cap again today if this goes on in this pace

but there are so many hats i have no clue how to get them

You know there is documentation for it, right?

I'm not advocating hat-hunting of course XD

ermm last year i found it yes

mhmm some hats i should surely get till the end of winter bash

without specific hat hunting

there surely are people hat hunting, i have seen names during the past days i normaly not see the whole year ;)

I love the Winter Bash effect... gets people asking, answering, reviewing, editing, exploring other sites, and generally doing more of all the good stuff

yes true the site is more alive, but on the other side some things suffer greatly, like edit suggestions, and comment culture :)

oh what have you noticed?

I agree there are some downsides haha but curious about specifically what you've seen (maybe this is a Downboat matter)

as guntbert posted in his meta people using inline code tags for emphasis and such

oh... that always happens :S

and people are sometimes very borderline to rude in comments, especially the ones you not see over the year

I try to avoid using code tags for that but well sometimes i do it myself within measurement of course

I'm pretty merciless in editing code formatting used for things that are not code and not codelike (or any other formatting lapse)

@Videonauth ugh do post in the Downboat if you see anything that needs flags

@Videonauth there are at least two hats for deleting your own comments this year, which ought to help

sometimes i have a hard time telling if it should code-tagged or not like lib names or such

yeah there are some borderline things... I put backticks around file names and paths and package names, but I could go either way on user names

but that's clearly not for emphasis, but to make it easier to see the exact characters, so that it can be accurately typed etc

yep

facepalm askubuntu.com/q/988141

+1 to your comment - I think reboot will fix that

i mean, this makes me wanna bash my head against a wall

for those i wish we would have a no-issue and wont-fix

we have close reasons :)

I know, just kidding

but it would be reasonable to post an answer saying "compiz will come back on reboot" and explaining why...

what about firstworldproblems

maybe that question is unclear

it is maybe he even uninstalled it and i get tons of downvotes for suggesting such easy thing as a reboot :P

well i worte an answer just not knowing what else i should write lol

oh hmm...

going to sleep now. I'll take another look at that in the morning

have deleted my answer he must have screwed up more than just ending compiz in the task manager

maybe vote unclear...

nope im going to solve this now :P

:D