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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: why no .kshrc file?
Keywords: ksh history sh csh
Message-ID: <1287@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 89 13:22:33 GMT
References: <262@zeek.UUCP>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <262@zeek.UUCP>, rick@zeek.UUCP (Rick Wilhelm) writes:
> 1)  Is there a way to run ksh with a startup script and
> 	then turn things over to stdin and the $ prompt, etc.?

Yes.  place the name of the script into the $ENV environment variable
and all sub-kshell will run it.

I usually place all of my shell functions and aliases into a ".ksh.profile"
and include the following code in my .profile:

	ENV=$HOME/.ksh.profile
	export ENV
	. $ENV


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