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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: csh pleasures
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.184051.8939@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 18:40:51 GMT
References: <10880@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <10880@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> tve@sprite.berkeley.edu (Thorsten von Eicken) writes:
>Question: what does the following c-shell script print out?
>Anybody care defending?
>
>	#!/bin/csh -f
>	set a=0
>	set b=1
>	if($a) then
>...
 csh is rather fussy when it parses its input.  Try: if ( $a ) then 

In particular, "if(" is well known to cause problems.

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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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