On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Sami Kerola wrote: > Maybe toprc directory is not totally bad idea. It could for example > implement some sort of commonly available environment variable more to > less specific evaluation. For example > > $HOME/.toprc.d/$HOSTNAME > $HOME/.toprc.d/default > /etc/toprc > > That would make NFS home use case work fine. Is that any good in > other situations, I am not sure. > > Of course top could implement domain-specific configuration language > to overcome all issues, but this option feels overkill. Sami, No symlinks. No new variables. No additional code bloat. #!/bin/sh export HOME=/where/rcfile/written && /with/this/top Jim