tcsh - some more questions
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.UUCP
Wed Mar 22 06:19:39 AEST 1989
>>1) Where should I 'exec tcsh' or 'exec -tcsh'?
>> In my .cshrc file? with 'if (! $?tcsh) exec -tcsh' for example?
>> In my .login file?
>
>As far as your 'tcsh' question, I don't think you really wand to
>'exec' tcsh at all. When you exec from within a script file, you are
>merely replacing the script file with the exec file, _not_ replacing the
>shell.
Not true, in this case. ".cshrc" and ".login" files are *not* executed
in subshells, so if you do "exec tcsh" in your ".login", "tcsh" will
*replace* your login shell, not be run underneath it.
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