Login shell?

[Kris Croes]

In article <3ed799bc.103e8 at hi-csc.UUCP> mukul at hi-csc.UUCP (Mukul Agrawal)
writes:
>Is there a way ( /bin/csh , Sun Unix 3.4 ) to find out if the shell
>that is running is a login shell or not, just like one can use
>"$?prompt" to find out whether or not it is an interactive shell.

The following is not exactly an answer to this question (Chris Torek
answered it exactly in article <13851 at mimsy.UUCP>), but it is related
and useful too.

A way to detect whether your .cshrc is executed the first time, or whether
it is executed with a "source .cshrc" e.g. after you edited it is:

< 1>  # Test if new csh.
< 2>  set temp = /tmp/prompt$$
< 3>  history 1 > $temp
< 4>  if (-z $temp) then
< 5>    # This is the first time .cshrc is executed
< 6>    alias lpr    `which lpr` \!\* \&
< 7>  else
< 8>    # This is when .cshrc is executed with 'source'
< 9>  endif
<10>  /bin/rm $temp
<11>  unset temp

Why is this usefull? A little example:

When no precautions are taken, on some machines the `which ...` on line 6 would
return "alias: /usr/local/lpr !* &" when you source your .cshrc.
>From then on, you need paper and a pencil to make listings. 8-)

Hopefully someone can use it...

Kris Croes.
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