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My terminal want to display username, time and date whenever logged into the terminal.
For that i made a script which displays username and date
My script is as follows
Code:
who am i | cut -d " " -f1
date
This sript name is userdate
I want to run this script whenevr i log in
So i want to put 'userdate' into .login file
But how can i do that
Where can i find .login file
My terminal want to display username, time and date whenever logged into the terminal.
For that i made a script which displays username and date
My script is as follows
Code:
who am i | cut -d " " -f1
date
This sript name is userdate
I want to run this script whenevr i log in
So i want to put 'userdate' into .login file
But how can i do that
Where can i find .login file
run ls -la in you r home dir , it may be there.
if not there create a file on that name and and put the script in that file, make it executable and make an entry in profile/rc file in your home dir to execute .login.
make an entry in profile/rc file in your home dir to execute .login.
HOW ITS POSSIBLE?
Dear Micky, what shell do you use ?
Run this to get:
Quote:
echo $SHELL
If BASH then the files are : ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash-profile
If ksh the the files are : ~/.profile and ~/.kshrc or ~/.login file may be there.
if csh the files are : ~/.cshrc
You can add an entry like this:
Code:
. ~/.login
in the profile/rc file in your home dir if you dont have .login.
where .login contains the script you want to excute.
When you login the these rc/profile file executes whatever written in them.
Last edited by divyashree; 03-28-2012 at 04:56 AM.
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