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From: Timothy Stone <registrant@petmystone.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: setopt returns both "interactive and login"
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:03:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F21BE21-17D6-4CB5-85C6-677F2C9BC3E5@petmystone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EBBCB06-AA3E-44B0-9F18-189D3A8BAE7B@gmail.com>


On Jun 26, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Michael Hernandez wrote:

> On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Timothy Stone wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>>
>>> Timothy Stone wrote:
>>>> Can my shell be both 'interactive' and 'login' at the same time?
>>>
>>> Yes, that's the normal case for a login shell.
>>
>> Hmmm... I'm beginning to understand something is occurring behind  
>> the scenes here... the *NIX /login/ utility.
>>
>> So, when I open a new terminal window, with /insert favorite  
>> terminal application here/, the /login/ utility is invoked and I  
>> get a *login* shell, this is *interactive*. Following that, I  
>> request a new shell at the command line, barring the /-l/ switch,  
>> I get a new, but /interactive/ shell:
>> Am I on the right path here?
>
>
> The "user friendly user guide" and the book "From Bash to Z Shell"  
> both cover this, and are both very helpful (the Bash to Z Shell  
> book especially, if you want to see comparisons between shells).

I have the latter, so I may have missed something in the text. I'll  
take a peek at the /User Friendly User Guide/ as a supplement.

Peter, just saw your reply. Thanks. (No need to plug the book.  
Excellent material!) I'm just trying all of this out in a real world  
environment and syncing my mental expectations with the actual  
practice of it.

Many thanks!
Tim

>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Mike


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-26 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-26 17:29 Timothy Stone
2006-06-26 17:34 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-06-26 17:56   ` Timothy Stone
2006-06-26 18:14     ` Michael Hernandez
2006-06-26 18:45       ` Danek Duvall
2006-06-26 19:03       ` Timothy Stone [this message]
2006-06-26 18:15     ` Peter Stephenson

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