Whoops - apologies. Friday afternoon :-)
On 29/10/2010 16:26, "Joachim Backess" <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
wrote:
On 10/29/2010 03:39 PM, Mark Liggett wrote:
> Hi Sumatheja,
>
> I¹m guessing you want a script to run only once (did say whether it was
> per user). You could add your script to the .bashrc file this way the
> script would run once when the user logs on. Alternatively run the
> script and export an environment variable then check it using an if
> statement before you run the script again, eg;
>
> if [ -n ³$script-has-run-envar² ]; then
> <source_script>
> script-has-run-envar=²Yes²
> export $script-has-run-envar
I think you mean -without the $ char- ;-)
export script-has-run-envar
Regards