Magnus Therning wrote: > > 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 )
Of course, this will only ever display it once, and for only one user... a refinement maybe: [[ -f /tmp/todo_done$USER ]] || ( cat ~/TODO; touch /tmp/todo_done$USER ) and in /etc/crontab 0 6 * * * root rm /tmp/todo_done* to delete all the flags at 6am Chris -- ubuntu-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
