Previously Raul Miller wrote: > What's a shell? In this case, anything that is used as a login-shell. > (3) Is perl -de 0 a shell? How about with -MShell? > (4) Is emacs a shell? > (5) Is wish a shell? > (6) Is expect a shell? > (7) Is vi a shell? [If not, what about ! commands on a remote elvis under X?] all of these are started (possibly indirectly) by a shell like sh, unless you do something really weird. So the inherit the environment and don't need special attention. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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