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From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Forcing actions at login
Message-ID: <az9t6k.cx4@wang.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 02:20:44 GMT
References: <6153@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <446@minya.UUCP> <1991Jan10.191546.268@am.sublink.org> <1991Jan13.231048.25341@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
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allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
> $ sed -n 6,10p /etc/profile
> if test ! -f $HOME/.hushlogin; then
>     if newer-than /etc/motd $HOME/.enoughalready; then
> 	cat /etc/motd
> 	touch $HOME/.enoughalready
>     fi
> fi
> $ cat newer-than.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
[...]

Why write C code?  I think this is portable (though, admittedly, ugly):

if test ! -f $HOME/.hushlogin; then
    /bin/find /etc/motd -newer $HOME/.enoughalready -exec cat {} \; 2>/dev/null
    touch $HOME/.enoughalready
fi

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Tom Fitzgerald   Wang Labs        fitz@wang.com
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