You have edited /etc/profile to include the lines:

dennis_says=hello export dennie_says You have also edited /etc/skel/local.profile to include the line:

dennis_says=world You now create a new user account brian, and specify use of the bash shell. When brian logs in and enters echo $dennis_says What will he see, and why?

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You have edited /etc/profile to include the lines:

dennis_says=hello export dennie_says You have also edited /etc/skel/local.profile to include the line:

dennis_says=world You now create a new user account brian, and specify use of the bash shell. When brian logs in and enters echo $dennis_says What will he see, and why?

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C. hello, because the local.profile entry is not automatically sourced on login

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A. world, because the local.profile entry will be executed last

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B. hello, because the global /etc/profile entry overrides the local.profile entry

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D. hello, because the value specified in local.profile was not exported

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E. nothing, because the variable was not exported in local.profile

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