From: culliton@srg.af.mil (Tom Culliton x2278)
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: More stuff related to exec...
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 11:37:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9212031137.aa29960@ceres.srg.af.mil> (raw)
Here, presented for your amusement, is a cute little stunt that sh,
ksh, and csh do and that rc, and bash do not.
If you have occasion to use the "newgrp" command or read the man page
it says that when you run newgrp it replaces the current shell
(effectively an exec) this obviously entails magic within the shells
(try "strings /bin/sh | grep newgrp") Not only that, but newgrp seems
to revert to the shell named in the login file, ignoring the current
setting of SHELL.
If you care about the exec behaviour you can obviously create a newgrp
function ("fn newgrp { exec /bin/newgrp $* }"). As for the other, it
looks like that's just the way the ball bounces. Isn't unix fun? ;-)
Tom
next reply other threads:[~1992-12-03 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-12-03 16:37 Tom Culliton x2278 [this message]
1992-12-03 21:11 ` noel
1992-12-03 23:22 ` David J. Fiander
1992-12-04 2:38 Tom Culliton x2278
1992-12-04 14:52 Chet Ramey
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