call script file in .profile

[Amir Haboosheh]

I have this script in each users's profile that I don't want to login with more than one session.

after the script i run a program with another exit command at the end. the problem is when i try to call a file that has this script, the exit command doesn't logout the user it just echo's the "...already logged in" text and then runs the other program.

# Check if the user is logged in #
telsession=$(who | grep $LOGNAME | wc -l)
if [ ${telsession} -ge 2 ]
then
clear
echo "You are already logged in"
exit
fi

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

Instead of executing the script, why not "source" it?  That way it is running under control of the original .profile.

[Amir Haboosheh]

how do you source it?

[James R. Ferguson]

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@Amir Haboosheh wrote:

how do you source it?

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"Sourcing" is done in the Korn, POSIX (which is the so-called HP-UX shell), and the bash shell with a dot-charater, followed by whitespace, followed by the name of the file to be sourced:

. file_to_source

The Bash shell can also use the keyword 'source' in leu of the dot.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Amir Haboosheh]

thank you both. the source command didn't work but the "." did

thanks again.

[Dennis Handly]

>the source command didn't work but the "." did

Of course, you are using a real shell, not bash nor the scummy C shell.