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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ksh and .profile Post 302169246 by nj78 on Wednesday 20th of February 2008 03:41:19 PM
Old 02-20-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesByars
hi,


I am in the c shell. I was under the impression that if I type ksh, then the .profile will get executed, and it will also execute x.tm. But I do not see hello world printed out.

Thanks.
Doesn't work like that, if you default login is csh. At least it doesn't work for meSmilie
 

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LEARN ABOUT V7

suspend

suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

   ksh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Apr 1994                                                         suspend(1)
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