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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: starting up a shell
Message-ID: <5048@solo9.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 5 Jan 90 19:40:44 GMT
References: <1990Jan3.133233.24427@granite.cr.bull.com> <1990Jan4.003801.12324@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatika, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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In article <1990Jan3.133233.24427@granite.cr.bull.com>, freedman@granite.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman) writes:
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\   I want to start up a shell (ksh,sh,csh - all, any shell)
\but I want to give it a specially tailored environment. Ca
\I get the shell to look at something other than the satandard
\startups - .cshrc,.profile etc when the shell starts?

csh:
	csh -fc 'source startupfile; command'

sh:
	.profile isn't executed at all
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