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From: benji@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Jeff Benjamin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: .suffile/.logout in ksh
Message-ID: <8170002@hpfcdq.HP.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 16:10:50 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO
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> Does anyone know how to get a ".suffile" file to work for ksh?

I assume you mean the equivalent of csh .logout, to do something
when you exit a session?

Ksh does not do anything like this for you automatically; you have
to set up your .profile to trap the signal generated on a logout and
then execute a command.

Syntax for a ksh "trap" is: trap [arg] [sig]..., where "arg is a command
read and executed when the shell receives signal(s) sig."
See the ksh man page for more info.

The line to do this in my .profile looks like:

trap $HOME/.logout 0

This says "when you receive signal 0 (logout), execute $HOME/.logout".
So my .logout file is executed when I logout from ksh as well as
from csh.

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Jeff Benjamin                         {ucbvax,hplabs}!hpfcla!benji
Graphics Technology Division          benji%hpfcla@hplabs.HP.COM
Hewlett Packard Co.                   Fort Collins, Colorado