Re: logout from interactive subshell

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 10/12/06, Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3
<mn-pg-p-e-b-consultant-3.com@siemens.com> wrote:
> Does someone know how to deal with the following situation?
>
> Very often I do the following pattern:
>
>    (1) rlogin to a foreign host
>    (2) Invoke a subshell (for example because I'm setting a Clearcase
> View)
>    (3) Logout from the host
>
> Step (3) needs two steps: First I have to type 'exit' to leave the
> subshell,
> and then either 'exit' or 'logout' to leave the login shell.
>
> Is it possible to automate this in such a way that I have to type only
> one
> command, to leave all subshells (in this case, only 1, but in general, I
> might be several subshells deep) AND then logout?
>
> One idea would be to use ps, locate the process to the current subshell,
> crawling upwards via the PPIDs to find the PID of the login shell, and
> kill
> it. But this seems to be such an awkward solution, that I thought maybe
> there is an easier way to do it.

How about
function rlogin() {command rlogin "$@"; exit}
?

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Mikael Magnusson