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From: ballou@brahms.Berkeley.EDU (Kenneth R. Ballou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Expressions in csh IF commands
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Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 03:06:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 23 03:06:07 1987
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In article <15@aber-cs.UUCP> dap@aber-cs.UUCP (Dave Price) writes:
>Can someone please tell me what is wrong with the following
>apparently faulty IF in csh.
>
>	if ( \{ /bin/true \} ) echo "hello"
>
>man csh expression description paragraph says you
>can use commands in {} however all the above
>produces is IF syntax error.....

The correct syntax is 

	if { /bin/true } echo "hello"

The parentheses are unnecessary.
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