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title: UNIX ProTips
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description: Handy tips for budding power users
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author: xvetrd
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# UNIX ProTips
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I realized today I wasn't getting mail notifications, and I hadn't set
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them up on this shell. So here are some things I do on my local machine
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that work here:
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To get the shell to tell you when you have new mail, after command
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executions, add this to your `.profile` or your `.kshrc` files
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(or other shell RC file) in your home directory.
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```
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export MAILCHECK=0
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```
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And, if you want, you can have a persistent notification when
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you have un-incorporated mail, or more specifically, when your
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`/var/mail/<username>` isn't empty.
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```
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PS1="\$([-s /var/mail/`whoami` ] && echo '* ')$PS1"
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```
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This works in `/bin/ksh`, I can't speak for other shells.
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If anybody else has some quick tips they would like to share, I encorage
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them to edit this page.
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Happy Unixing!
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