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From: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: mailwatch script wanted
Message-ID: <319@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 11:09:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: tektools.319
Posted: Fri Jul 19 11:09:58 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jul-85 03:13:42 EDT
References: <411@sdcc12.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

[Doesn't this sort of thing belong in net.unix?]

In article <411@sdcc12.UUCP> wa371@sdcc12.UUCP (Bernd) writes:
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a shell script for my .login
> file, which will announce immediately upon login whether I have mail
> or not, without putting me into the mail program if I don't want 
> to be.
> It should run under the 4.2 c-shell.

Try this single line:

	if (! -z /usr/spool/mail/wa371) echo You have mail.

Instead of hardcoding your login name (wa371), you could use $user instead.

--Jerry Peek, UNIX Training Instructor, Tektronix, Inc.
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