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From: weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796))
Subject: Re: csh setenv with `cat ...`
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.190550.15843@ssd.kodak.com>
Keywords: csh setenv with `cat ...`
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 19:05:50 GMT


In article <6291@beryl12.UUCP>, mostek@motcid.UUCP (Frank B. Mostek) writes:
|> I am having a problem with the csh setenv command:
|> 
|> $setenv EXINIT `cat ~/.myexrc`
|> `cat ~/.myexrc`: Ambiguous.
|> 
|> Any ideas?

who about:

set x=(`awk
'{if(substr($1,1,1)=="\"")next}{if(s==""){s=$0}else{s=s"|"$0}}END{print
s}' ~/.myexrc`)
setenv EXINIT "$x"

This makes the necessary formatting changes, skipping comments 
(awk script) and gets rid of Ambiguous error (`cat ~/.myexrc` produces
multiple "words", setenv interprets them as multiple params and gags).

NOTE: setenv EXINIT "`awk '<program>' ~/.myexrc`" would be nice, but I
couldn't get it to work; hence the intermediate set x=(...)

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )