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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: KSH questions
Keywords: korn shell, ksh, ENV, meta-expands
Message-ID: <10072@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 14 Feb 88 22:36:16 GMT
References: <437@n8emr.UUCP>
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Reply-To: ekrell@hector (Eduardo Krell)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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In article <437@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>
>The first question is a 'technique' question.  I would like to have a series
>of aliases, etc initialized for each interactive shell that I invoke (whether
>it is under a terminal, pseudo terminal, etc.).  I would like to have a SUBSET
>of these aliases in effect for each korn shell command that I execute.

The ksh variable $- contains all the flags supplied to the shell when it was
invoked or by using the set command. All interactives shell have the -i
flag set, so you can put in your ENV file:


case $- in
	*i*)	... stuff for interactive shells ...
esac
    
    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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