HOW do you tell KSH is interactive ?
The Grand Master
asg at sage.cc.purdue.edu
Tue Feb 19 03:31:56 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb18.070424.6054 at noose.ecn.purdue.edu> you write:
>In my .profile I set "export ENV=~/.kshrc". Certainly I don't want
>the aliases or something to executed for non-interactive shell, i.e.
>the shell spawned to interprete the ksh-scripts. Is there a way to
>tell if the shell is interactive wone ithin .kshrc ?
>
>Thanks,
>--Jun
>P.S. testing PS1 didn't work.
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Get ready, this is really weird:
put these two lines in your .profile:
START=$HOME/.kshrc
ENV='${START[ (_$- = 1) + (_ = 0) - (_$- != _${-%%*i*}) ]}'
export START ENV
Bruce Varney
The Grand Master
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