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Subject: Re: All login shells are interactive?
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From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
Date: 13 Oct 2002 10:56:09 -0700
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alnesbit@optushome.com.au writes:

> That's what the FAQ says, but I don't understand how this can be true.
> Surely you can have a non-interactive login shell, like, say
> 
>     zsh -l -c 'echo Non-interactive login shell'

Yes indeed. And it is used by at least gnome-session and CDE when you
start an X session.

Phil.