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From: wallace@ynotme.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: :t modifier in tcsh and csh
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.204347.2932@engage.pko.dec.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 20:41:18 GMT
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In article <10186@star.cs.vu.nl>, mgemmel@cs.vu.nl (Martin Gemmel) writes...
>Doing  'csh -f bin/script' yields: 'bin/script:t'
In csh you can not use the : modifiers on the positional variables. You will
need to assign $0 to another variable and then use :t on that new variable.

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