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From: kurt@hi.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Fun with ignoreeof
Message-ID: <23236@hi.unm.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 88 17:07:01 GMT
References: <2248@tekcrl.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: kurt@hi.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <2248@tekcrl.TEK.COM> eirik@crl.TEK.COM (Eirik Fuller) writes:
>This is not intended to do much beyond amuse, but ...
>
>I have the following two lines in .cshrc:
>
>alias exit 'echo "Use ^D to exit"'
>alias logout 'echo "Use ^D to logout"'
>
>They are there only as a joke, but they got me thinking.  Suppose I
>also say "set ignoreeof".  How do I logout?  No fair using unset or
>unalias or alias -- they give any number of obvious two-liners.  Can
>I do it with a one-liner? (Using ";" is cheating too :-).

kill -9 $$

>My first impulse was "\exit" or "\logout".  No dice, since a leading
>\ to undo aliases also undoes builtins.  This soon led me to exec;
>the first quiet one I tried was "exec true"; it worked.
>
>So how about it?  Any other solutions, that don't use alias, unalias,
>unset, exec, or source?  Don't waste any time on this, as it is of no
>more importance than it seems.  Flames about shell preference will be
>quietly ignored. :-)


-- 
	Kurt (zeilenga@hc.dspo.gov)