Hi Valdis, > > No `#'? How about just always send to the user's shell from the > > password entry with a -c, as distinct from /bin/sh. > > The problem is that some people (at least in the Elder TImes) would > have their login shell set to /bin/csh but they'd want their scripty > things done in /bin/sh. (I used to do that myself, way back when csh > had ! history and sh didn't until it became bash).
Me too. Wasn't the method then to have sh scripts start with non-#, e.g. colon, and then csh/tcsh would spot that and run them under sh? All pre-#!, of course. (I was a csh, then tcsh user for many years. Finally moving to bash as it gave !-history and `set -o vi' command-line editing.) Cheers, Ralph. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
