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Article #356Re: pwsendlogs - look out for itcsh constructs in C shell scripts
From: Ian! D. Allen [CGL]
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1989 21:07
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1989 21:07
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> From: "John M. Sellens" <jmsellens>
> | From jmberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu Thu Sep 21 08:05:40 1989
> |
> | echo "${0:t}: $host - sending files to '$dest'"
Don't try this at home, kids. Stock C shells are too dumb to apply colon
(":") operators to numeric dollar ("$") variables or environment variables.
ITCSH doesn't have these problems, of course, and lucky for us pwsendlogs
uses itcsh instead of csh.
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
129.97.128.64 Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!idallen From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.software Subject: Re: pwsendlogs - look out for itcsh constructs in C shell scripts Message-ID: <11587@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Date: 23 Sep 89 21:07:40 GMT References: <16609@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 12