From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@robohack.ca>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Shell Level...
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:55:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1itgtX-0036tPC@more.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1itSE0-5Td-00@marmaro.de>
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At Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:15:56 +0100, markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Shell Level...
>
> What's the use of it? The only use of $SHLVL I can think of is the
> answer to the question if ^D will close the last shell or just a
> sub shell. I hardly ever ask myself this question. Probably that
> starts to become relevant when you open sub shells frequently.
I've always just used "set ignoreeof" (first in Csh and later in Ksh),
but just in my initial login shell (i.e. set in ~/.login), to prevent ^D
from logging me out.
--
Greg A. Woods <gwoods@acm.org>
Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods@robohack.ca>
Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com> Avoncote Farms <woods@avoncote.ca>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-20 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-19 21:22 Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-01-19 23:21 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-20 8:15 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-20 8:39 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-01-21 20:42 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-01-20 19:40 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-20 23:51 ` Terry Jones
2020-01-21 20:44 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-01-21 23:10 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-20 23:55 ` Greg A. Woods [this message]
2020-01-21 20:46 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-01-21 23:39 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-01-20 23:43 ` Greg A. Woods
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