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From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:50:27 -0800
Subject: [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix
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> On Nov 16, 2017, at 2:58 PM, Andy Kosela <akosela at andykosela.com> wrote:
> 
> If you happen to be on Red Hat derived Linux, the easiest way to turn off all this crap is to rename /etc/profile to something like /etc/profile.dist and then populate your own startup scripts.

Better is to install a .profile that begins with 'unalias -a'.  That seems to clean out all the cruft and leave you with a clean slate to build from.

I've just learned to install my own .profile and .env files, and ignore the crap foisted on me by ... whatever ...