Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!maart
From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: csh programming problem
Message-ID: <5991@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 15 Mar 90 16:10:58 GMT
References: <53408@bbn.COM> <1990Mar15.102758.17051@axion.bt.co.uk>
Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatika, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Lines: 42

In article <1990Mar15.102758.17051@axion.bt.co.uk>,
	iwarner@axion.bt.co.uk (Ivan Warner) writes:
)In article <53408@bbn.COM>, ellard@bbn.com (Dan Ellard) writes:
)> I am trying to write a shell script that takes several arguments and
)> passes them to child processes, i.e.
)> 
)> #!/bin/csh
)> foo $1 $2 ...
)> bar $1 $2 ...
)...
)> Unfortunately, this method does not work when $1 is something like 'a
)b', [...]
)...
)	what on earth is wrong with:
)
)#!/bin/csh 
)foo "$1" "$2"
)bar "$1" "$2"
)
)	have I missed some subtle point, or is this not a `wizards' question

You missed a subtle point: what if the number of arguments is unknown in
advance?  You can't say "$@" in csh.
Still this isn't a wizards question, because the answer can be found in the
csh manual:

	% set argv=('a b' \\c \') 
	% set argv=($argv:q pp)
	% cat aap 
	for i
	do
		echo "=$i="
	done
	% sh aap $*:q
	=a b=
	=\c=
	='=
	=pp=
	% 
--
 1) Will 4.5BSD have wait5()?         |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
 2) Sleep(3) should be sleep(2) again.|maart@cs.vu.nl, uunet!mcsun!botter!maart