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From: zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Running .cshrc
Keywords: .cshrc
Message-ID: <1991May17.174631.20553@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 May 91 17:46:31 GMT
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In article <1991May17.125630.2977@socrates.umd.edu> fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) writes:
>
>I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>After being away from the net for awhile I now have an account which
>will post news. So here's my first return question:
>
>I know the .cshrc file is run when I start up terminal (since I still
>run csh--got to get some time to look at bash). But at what other
>times is it invoked. I would say "it isn't". However, it runs when
>I use 'which', it runs when I print from TeXview, and probably at other
>times.
>

    The which command in /usr/ucb/which is a shell script, and as you
mentioned, it does run your .cshrc.   

   1.  Why does which use #!/bin/csh -f, and then go and source ~/.cshrc.
       What is the difference between that and just doing a #!/bin/csh?
   2.  If you take out the line that sources ~/.cshrc at the very least,
       which has problems with telling you about aliases.
   3.  You might be able to fix the problem you are having by changing your
       .cshrc.

        if(! $?0) then 
	# the code in this section will only be run if csh doesn't know the
        # current input filename.  This code will not be run when you
        # do the which command.
        # this is where you could put you background and printer power
	# commands
	endif


    I have tried the code I mention in part 3, and it seems to work.  However,
I am not a shell guru, and it might not work for all cases, or there might
be an easier method.

Andrew
zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu