Re: why is the - modifier useful

Bart Schaefer <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM Martijn Dekker <[email protected]> wrote:
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> All the POSIXy shells care to this day, zsh included. So does tcsh.

True, but that's not quite the same as it being useful.  The shells
all have other options to make them login shells ... are there any
other commands that need to be prefixed with a "-" in order to be
treated as a login, either themselves or by some other thing examining
the process list?
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