login shell or not?

2007-02-12 Thread peter360
In an interative shell, what is the easiest way to tell whether it is a login shell or not? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/login-shell-or-not--tf3211932.html#a8919535 Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: login shell or not?

2007-02-12 Thread Chet Ramey
peter360 wrote: In an interative shell, what is the easiest way to tell whether it is a login shell or not? Thanks. In sufficiently modern versions of bash (basically anything newer than bash-2.05), you can test the setting of the `login_shell' shopt variable. The shell sets it automatically