Re: Bash equivalent of cmd /k switch

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From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:25

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David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> writes:
>On Jun 2, 1:56=A0pm, Nate Eldredge <n...@vulcan.lan> wrote:
>
>> You could write your command to a file, and use --rcfile to point to
>> it. =A0But I'm having a hard time understanding why you want to do this;
>> most of the things I can imagine to do with this have better ways of
>> doing them. =A0What's your goal here?
>
>My guess would be that he wants to set up the shell in a special way.
>Maybe he wants to set environment variables, the prompt, the current
>working directory, and so on. This way, he can drop the user into a
>shell especially configured for some application.
>
>DS

Why not use .profile/.login/.kshrc/.bashrc as appropriate for the shell
being used?

scott

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