mailwatch script wanted

[Jerry Peek]

[Doesn't this sort of thing belong in net.unix?]

In article <411 at sdcc12.UUCP> wa371 at sdcc12.UUCP (Bernd) writes:
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a shell script for my .login
> file, which will announce immediately upon login whether I have mail
> or not, without putting me into the mail program if I don't want 
> to be.
> It should run under the 4.2 c-shell.

Try this single line:

	if (! -z /usr/spool/mail/wa371) echo You have mail.

Instead of hardcoding your login name (wa371), you could use $user instead.

--Jerry Peek, UNIX Training Instructor, Tektronix, Inc.
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