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From: paul@falstad
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: csh setenv with `cat ...`
Keywords: csh setenv with `cat ...`
Message-ID: <56092@notavax.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 26 Apr 91 04:06:46 GMT
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mostek@motcid.UUCP (Frank B. Mostek) wrote:
>I am having a problem with the csh setenv command:
>
>$setenv EXINIT `cat ~/.myexrc`
>`cat ~/.myexrc`: Ambiguous.

The problem is that `cat ~/.myexrc` produces more than one word.  setenv
takes only two arguments.  Do:

setenv EXINIT "`cat ~/.myexrc`"

The double quotes prevent the `...` from being split into words.

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