peter360 wrote:
> In an interative shell, what is the easiest way to tell whether it is a login
> shell or not? Thanks.
In sufficiently modern versions of bash (basically anything newer than
bash-2.05), you can test the setting of the `login_shell' shopt variable.
The shell sets it automatically for login shells.
The most portable way to do it, in the sense that it works across multiple
versions of multiple shells, is to set a variable in ~/.bash_profile and
test it later.
Chet
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