Identifying .login Shells

[David Goodenough]

>From article <309 at wubios.wustl.edu>, by david at wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp):
> Does anyone know a way to determine whether you are in the login shell
> from .cshrc?  -David-

In .cshrc say:

set login=0

and in .login say:

set login=1

Now

if ($login == 1)

you have a login shell. This relies on the fact that .cshrc is executed
by every csh, but .login is only execute by your login csh, AND after
.cshrc has done it's bit.
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