Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What is a good way to do general execs?
Message-ID: <3459@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 13 Jun 90 18:21:20 GMT
References: <347@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <3449@auspex.auspex.com> <805@ehviea.ine.philips.nl>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >|The Bourne shell sources ".profile" *only* for login shells (just as the
 >|C shell sources ".login" only for login shells - the "-f" in
 >|"#! /bin/csh -bf" is there to prevent it from sourcing your ".cshrc").
 >
 >Nope. For the man page for 'sh': 
 > 
 >     Invocation. 
 >     If the first character of argument zero is -, commands are 
 >     read from $HOME/.profile, if such a file exists.   

I consider "login shell" basically short for "shell with the first
character of argument zero a '-'" (which means that any shell fired up
by "login" is a login shell, but so are shells fired up by e.g.  "su"
when run with the appropriate flag).  I considered the more detailed
explanation unnecessary and extraneous in this case....