Hi all,
Further simplification - 'ps | grep' can be replaced by pgrep(1)
and if-then-fi by &&.
> While there:
>
> - remove ':' (null utility) from the very first line of the file -
> I *do* understand what it does but it doesn't seem like it's needed
> at all, unless I'm missing something (as is the case with some idioms)
> [...]
>
As it transpired, this does indeed seem to be an old idiom denoting
a Bourne shell script.
To quote rpe@: "I guess it's fine to remove the : line in 2017."
I agree.
Thanks again to Robert for all the feedback and suggestions.
Regards,
Raf
Index: etc/ksh.kshrc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/ksh.kshrc,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -p -r1.28 ksh.kshrc
--- etc/ksh.kshrc 15 Jul 2017 07:11:42 -0000 1.28
+++ etc/ksh.kshrc 16 Jul 2017 11:49:55 -0000
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-:
# $OpenBSD: ksh.kshrc,v 1.28 2017/07/15 07:11:42 tb Exp $
#
# NAME:
@@ -74,9 +73,7 @@ case "$-" in
xterm*)
ILS='\033]1;'; ILE='\007'
WLS='\033]2;'; WLE='\007'
- if ps -p $PPID -o command | grep -q telnet; then
- export TERM=xterms
- fi
+ pgrep -qxs $PPID telnet && export TERM=xterms
;;
*) ;;
esac
