Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!mintaka!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!jik From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: csh programming problem Message-ID: <1990Mar16.023027.20160@athena.mit.edu> Date: 16 Mar 90 02:30:27 GMT References: <53408@bbn.COM> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Reply-To: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 24 In article , scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) writes: > Well, if I was making a shell script that JUST passed already passed > values to sub shells.... I would write it in sh because there is a > facility which makes this function extremely easy. See his previous > message for the problems csh causes.... As someone else has already pointed out, there is a functionality in csh to make it extremely easy as well -- the ":q" qualifier to variable expansion (That was a feature I didn't know about, too, so thanks to whomever pointed it out!). > > P.S. Any particular reason why your signature contained almost an entire > > page full of blank lines? > > Did it? What about this one? Are you sure? You're right, it was my newsreader (xrn is brain-damaged and stupid about some things....). Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8495 Home: 617-782-0710