csh quick logout?

Neil Todd neil at ist.CO.UK
Mon Feb 1 18:46:40 AEST 1988


In article <1145 at zen.UUCP>, frank at zen.UUCP (Frank Wales) writes:
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> >Is there a clean way -- other than using "jobs", then "kill", then
> >{^D,exit,logout} -- to force a quick logout that will kill off your
> >stopped jobs?
> 
> I just used   exec /   to quit from both ksh and csh.
> 
> It's simple, it seems to bump off any huppable stopped or running jobs
> nicely, and it's very quick.  The only potential inconvenience is the 
> "cannot execute" / "Permission denied" message as the shell prepares to
> run a directory and dies trying; maybe you can live with that.
> 
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> Frank Wales, Development Engineer,

I prefer to use ``exec true'', this gives no nasty message, and is
inheriently more sanitary. 

Neil

Imperial Software Technology, London.



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