On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:04:58PM +0100, David M wrote: >>>I'd like, when I login, for one of these terminals to run some commands >>>automatically. I know these would go in some kind of login file (eg, >>>the more-obviously-entitled-than-some .login, in some cases), but I >>>don't know which. >> >> Just to clarify, you want *one* out of several bash instances to run the >> commands? >> >> AFAIK anything you put in ~/.bash* will be run for *every* instance you >> start, so you'll need some more magic. > >Aye, good point. :-( >Actually, considering what I want to do, it won't really matter if each >shell runs the commands as they're not state-changing.
Then just stick it in ~/.bashrc, or something similar that is sourced in all interactive shells. >> What types of commands do you want to run in the bash instance? > >All that I really want is for the terminal to display the contents of a >"TODO" file when I login, to remind me of things I need to do! > >It wouldn't matter if each startup terminal did this, although I >suppose it would be better if subsequently-started terminals didn't do >this (is there a way for an X-terminal to tell whether it is started on >startup or manually?). What you could do is make sure it's only done once, i.e. for the first terminal that's started. Sticking something like this in ~/.bashrc might do: [[ -f /tmp/todo_done ]] || ( cat ~/TODO; touch /tmp/todo_done ) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. If it ain't dysfunctional, don't attempt pre-emptive preventative maintenance on it. -- Mainframe Journal
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