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In article <36961@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> spp@crane.cis.ufl.edu (Stephen Potter) writes:
>Here's an interesting little hack that one of our consultants here at UF came
>up with.  This is nice for those of us that have to use public workstations,
>and have to log on and off a lot, or for windowing environments.
>
># Show motd only if it has changed
>cmp -s ~/.hushlogin /etc/motd
>if ($status != 0) then
>  tee ~/.hushlogin < /etc/motd | more
>endif

Which could also be somewhat streamlined into:

find /etc/motd -newer ~/.hushlogin -exec cat {} \; -a -exec touch ~/.hushlogin \;

(note the trailing semi is really on the same line, and is required for
proper command termination)

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