Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!think!barmar
From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: New user .login file && a question
Message-ID: <26265@think.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 16:59:07 GMT
References: <28862@bbn.COM>
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Reply-To: barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
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In article <28862@bbn.COM> mesard@BBN.COM () writes:
>What gives?  Why would csh lose it's place in what I expected to be an
>unlink'ed but not yet forgotten file?

Because I don't think that "cp file existing_file" ever actually
unlinks existing_file.  It simply overwrites it.  What you should have
done is:

grep -v "FIRST_LOGIN" ~/.login > /tmp/$user.login
rm ~/.login
mv /tmp/$user.login ~/.login

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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