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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: reading stdin for tcsh script
Keywords: script, stdin
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Date: 17 Jan 91 14:13:48 GMT
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  Your shell script is not working because it is being evaluated by the bourne
shell, not by the C shell.  If you want your shell script to be evaluated by
the C shell, then put "#!/bin/csh -f" as the first line of the script (and
hope that either your kernel or your shells understand the "#!" notation; I
believe ultrix does).

Here's the script without a shell specification at the top:

    % cat test
    echo Enter NAME :
    set title = $<
    echo  Name : $title

Here's what happens when you run it:

    % ./test
    Enter NAME :
    ./test: syntax error at line 3: `newline' unexpected

Now we put a shell specification at the top:

    % ed test
    53
    1i
    #!/bin/csh -f
    .
    w
    67
    q

And run it again:

    % ./test
    Enter NAME :
    John Doe
    Name : John Doe
    %

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