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From: pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Falstad)
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Subject: Re: How can shell scripts be shared by different shells?
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Date: 6 Apr 91 18:35:11 GMT
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andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) wrote:
>Does anyone know of any clever kludges that can be made to this central
>shellfile, which could allow Ksh or Csh to be able to source it? I thought
>of putting a test at the top, but of course tests are different in Csh
>and Ksh.....

Do something like this:

export PATH && . kshscript && exit
source cshscript

Then create two files named 'kshscript' and 'cshscript' with appropriate
commands in each.  Or, just include the csh commands after the 'export'
line.

Why can't you just have two separate shellfiles, one for csh users and one
for ksh users, and just have each person source/. the appropriate file?

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