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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: .logout for ksh?
Keywords: .logout, KSH
Message-ID: <8620@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Oct 88 08:20:07 GMT
References: <1594@mcgp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1594@mcgp1.UUCP> fst@mcgp1.UUCP (Skip Tavakkolian) writes:
>Is there a way to execute something on exit, in Korn shell?
>This would be like the ``csh'' ``.logout'' file.

The following should work with any Bourne-compatible shell.
In your .profile, add:
	if [ -r $HOME/.logout ]
	then	trap ". $HOME/.logout" 0
	else	trap "exec echo 'logged out'" 0
	fi