Using exit in a Bourne shell script

Leo de Wit leo at philmds.UUCP
Sun Jul 24 19:46:32 AEST 1988


In article <3733 at okstate.UUCP> goog at okstate.UUCP (GOOG ??) writes:
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|I had this problem also, and to combat it I put a line in my .login (not
|.logout...) that states:
|
|set ignoreeof
|
|and that does it.  It will allow you to use Ctrl-D from anywhere to quit things

In article <4664 at csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf at csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes:
|How about 
|	set ignoreeof
|in your .cshrc. This will prevent you from doing what you're fearing, namely

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Boys, read the subject line. It says: ... in a Bourne shell script.
set ignoreeof is csh stuff.

        Leo.



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