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From: asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master)
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Subject: Re: HOW do you tell KSH is interactive ?
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Date: 18 Feb 91 16:31:56 GMT
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In article <1991Feb18.070424.6054@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> you write:
>In my .profile I set "export ENV=~/.kshrc".  Certainly I don't want
>the aliases or something to executed for non-interactive shell, i.e.
>the shell spawned to interprete the ksh-scripts.  Is there a way to 
>tell if the shell is interactive wone ithin .kshrc ?
>
>Thanks,
>--Jun
>P.S. testing PS1 didn't work.  
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Get ready, this is really weird:
put these two lines in your .profile:


START=$HOME/.kshrc
ENV='${START[ (_$- = 1) + (_ = 0) - (_$- != _${-%%*i*}) ]}'
export START ENV
 
		Bruce Varney
		  The Grand Master