#!/bin/bash -e ################################################################################ ## File: etc-environment.sh ## Desc: Helper functions for source and modify /etc/environment ################################################################################ # NB: sed expression use '%' as a delimiter in order to simplify handling # values containing slashes (i.e. directory path) # The values containing '%' will break the functions get_etc_environment_variable() { local variable_name=$1 # remove `variable_name=` and possible quotes from the line grep "^${variable_name}=" /etc/environment | sed -E "s%^${variable_name}=\"?([^\"]+)\"?.*$%\1%" } add_etc_environment_variable() { local variable_name=$1 local variable_value=$2 echo "${variable_name}=${variable_value}" | sudo tee -a /etc/environment } replace_etc_environment_variable() { local variable_name=$1 local variable_value=$2 # modify /etc/environemnt in place by replacing a string that begins with variable_name sudo sed -i -e "s%^${variable_name}=.*$%${variable_name}=${variable_value}%" /etc/environment } set_etc_environment_variable() { local variable_name=$1 local variable_value=$2 if grep "^${variable_name}=" /etc/environment > /dev/null; then replace_etc_environment_variable $variable_name $variable_value else add_etc_environment_variable $variable_name $variable_value fi } prepend_etc_environment_variable() { local variable_name=$1 local element=$2 # TODO: handle the case if the variable does not exist existing_value=$(get_etc_environment_variable "${variable_name}") set_etc_environment_variable "${variable_name}" "${element}:${existing_value}" } append_etc_environment_variable() { local variable_name=$1 local element=$2 # TODO: handle the case if the variable does not exist existing_value=$(get_etc_environment_variable "${variable_name}") set_etc_environment_variable "${variable_name}" "${existing_value}:${element}" } prepend_etc_environment_path() { local element=$1 prepend_etc_environment_variable PATH "${element}" } append_etc_environment_path() { local element=$1 append_etc_environment_variable PATH "${element}" } # Process /etc/environment as if it were shell script with `export VAR=...` expressions # The PATH variable is handled specially in order to do not override the existing PATH # variable. The value of PATH variable read from /etc/environment is added to the end # of value of the exiting PATH variable exactly as it would happen with real PAM app read # /etc/environment # # TODO: there might be the others variables to be processed in the same way as "PATH" variable # ie MANPATH, INFOPATH, LD_*, etc. In the current implementation the values from /etc/evironments # replace the values of the current environment reload_etc_environment() { # add `export ` to every variable of /etc/environemnt except PATH and eval the result shell script eval $(grep -v '^PATH=' /etc/environment | sed -e 's%^%export %') # handle PATH specially etc_path=$(get_etc_environment_variable PATH) export PATH="$PATH:$etc_path" }