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From: valdi@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur Sigurdsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: ksh question
Keywords: ksh
Message-ID: <1586@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 20 Mar 90 11:04:47 GMT
Organization: University of Iceland
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Background: The following was done on a HP 9000/360 with the
            Korn shell (vers. 62.2 from what /bin/ksh) and HP-UX 6.5.

.profile

	# This is a KornShell login profile 
	# Set and export the following
	export EDITOR=vi \
       	       ENV=$HOME/.envfile 


.envfile

	# This is a environment file
	set -o ignoreeof markdirs
	alias ls='lsf'
	stty intr  kill 


demo_arg

	#!/bin/ksh
	echo $0
	echo $1
	echo $2

chmod +x demo_arg

demo_arg var1 var2

Expected results:
	./demo_arg
	var1
	var2

Execution result:
	./demo_arg
	markdirs

The expected results can be acheived if "set -o ignoreeof markdirs" is in the
.profile. Another solution is to change in .envfile :

	set -o ignoreeof markdirs
to
	set -o ignoreeof
	set -o markdirs

It seems to be unlegal to have the command "set -o ignoreeof markdirs" in .envfile. 
Why ?

Glossary:

	markdirs :  ksh appends a trailing / to all directory names resulting
		    from pathname expansion.

	ignoreeof : When the interactive option is also set, ksh does not exit
		    on End-of-file (default CTRL-d). Type "exit" to terminate
		    ksh.  

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