New user .login file && a question

[Barry Margolin]

In article <28862 at bbn.COM> mesard at BBN.COM () writes:
>What gives?  Why would csh lose it's place in what I expected to be an
>unlink'ed but not yet forgotten file?

Because I don't think that "cp file existing_file" ever actually
unlinks existing_file.  It simply overwrites it.  What you should have
done is:

grep -v "FIRST_LOGIN" ~/.login > /tmp/$user.login
rm ~/.login
mv /tmp/$user.login ~/.login

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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