[Eug-lug] No value for $TERM

[Allen Brown]

I think that did it.  I also reordered some things between these
files.  Thank you for the hints.
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Allen Brown wrote:
> I don't call stty or tputs from .bashrc or /etc/profile.
> I call stty once in .bash_profile, and tputs not at all.
> It is done this way:
>   [[ -z ${VUE-} && -z ${DT-} && "${TERM}" != "dumb" ]] && stty kill "^U
> 
> The only one of these files that has the right pattern of
> stty+tputs+tputs is /etc/bashrc.  It is done this way:
> if [ -n "${PS1-}"  -a  -n "${TERM-}" ]; then
>   All terminal related stuff such as stty and tputs
> fi
> 
> /etc/bashrc loads /etc/profile if that hasn't happened yet.
> So moving this to /etc/profile won't solve the problem.
> I don't want to give up profile loading because lots of things
> will be very stupid without a profile.
> What I need to do is to make the conditionals around the
> terminal related stuff to work.
> I will try using a conditional like this:
> 
> if [ -n "${PS1-}"  -a  -n "${TERM-}"  -a  "${TERM-}" != "dumb" ]; then
>   All terminal related stuff such as stty and tputs
> fi