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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: how to use the -t option in csh
Keywords: usage
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Date: 9 Dec 90 23:38:27 GMT
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In article <6145@alpha.cam.nist.gov>, coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:
|> What is the purpose of the -t option in csh and 
|> how does one use it. I tryed to use it  doing the
|> following:
|> 
|> /bin/csh -t "ps ax; cat ~/.login"
|> 
|> It just sat there until I enterd a return the second time.

My csh(1) (BSD 4.3) says:

     -t   A single line of input is read and executed.  A `\' may
          be used to escape the newline at the end of this line
          and continue onto another line.

Note that the input is read *from the standard input*, not from the command
line; you appear to be attempting to use the option as if the input is read
from the command line.  For that, I believe what you want to use is the -c
option, not the -t option.  Again, from my man page:

     -c   Commands are read from the (single) following argument
          which must be present.  Any remaining arguments are
          placed in argv.

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