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From: sridhar@usceast.UUCP (M. A. Sridhar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Login shell?
Message-ID: <2975@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 19:23:38 GMT
Reply-To: sridhar@usceast.uucp.UUCP (M. A. Sridhar)
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Organization: University of South Carolina, Columbia
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Is there any way to determine, within a shell script (csh), whether the script 
is being executed by the login shell? I know that one can use the fact that
$prompt is set to detect an interactive shell, but I don't know how to test
whether it's the login shell.

Thanks in advance.
					- Sridhar

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