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From: paterra@cs.odu.edu (Frank C. Paterra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: error in a csh command line
Keywords: csh error help
Message-ID: <9899@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 2 Sep 89 02:54:00 GMT
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va.
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Is there any thing wrong with the following?

setenv PATH `echo $PATH | sed "s;$OLDNAME/bin;$NEWNAME/bin;g"`

When I type this in csh under sco xenix 386 I get the error
``:bus error

interestingly enough the following does work.

setenv DIRT `pwd | sed "s;a;e;g"`

Does anyone have any ideas?

Frank Paterra
paterra@cs.odu.edu