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From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  Using exit in a Bourne shell script
Message-ID: <7587@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 21 Jul 88 21:22:15 GMT
References: <16540@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <16540@brl-adm.ARPA> iunix1@almsa-1.arpa (Will Martin) writes:
> I often hit a CTRL-D at my top-level shell and get logged
> off when I really did not want to log off.

If you are using ksh or csh: set ignoreeof .
For the Bourne shell: you might try to use another prompt on
the outermost level (set PS1="@@@ " in your .profile, and do not export it).

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      Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- uunet!mcvax!aeb -- aeb@cwi.nl