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- From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
- Subject: Re: csh is screwed up
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.085228.2232@panix.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:52:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.171503.794@colorado.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- powellb@samwise.colorado.edu (Brian Powell) writes:
- > Does anyone know why the csh included with A/UX 3.0 is so screwed up?
- >This simple example here does not work under the A/UX csh; however, it works on
- >Sun, DEC, HP, IBM, and SGI. Here it is:
-
- Perhaps user error? Works fine here...
-
- > #!/bin/csh
- > set test = `pwd`
- > echo $test
- > exit
-
- > This program will not echo anything because the scripting with csh will
- >not execute the program pwd as it is supposed to. Does anyone know a work
- >around to this (beside tcsh)? I can't use tcsh for the application I am
- >applying this to.
-
- Try setting the path explicitly.
-
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