[ubuntu-uk] Re: Running commands from bash in an xterm when logging-in (to X session)?

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:25:14PM +0100, Chris Beauchamp wrote:
>Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>> 
>> What you could do is make sure it's only done once, i.e. for the first
>> terminal that's started. Sticking something like this in ~/.bashrc might
>> do:
>> 
>>  [[ -f /tmp/todo_done ]] || ( cat ~/TODO; touch /tmp/todo_done )
>
>Of course, this will only ever display it once, and for only one user...
>a refinement maybe:
>
>
>[[ -f /tmp/todo_done$USER ]] || ( cat ~/TODO; touch /tmp/todo_done$USER )
>
>and in /etc/crontab
>
>0 6 * * * root rm /tmp/todo_done*
>
>to delete all the flags at 6am

It might be further refined for multi-user use:

[[ ! -f /tmp/todo_done$USER -a -f ~/TODO ]] && \
     ( cat ~/TODO; touch /tmp/todo_done$USER )

That can then be put in /etc/bash.bashrc.

/M

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