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From: tytso@paris.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: if-then-else in csh alias?
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 22:48:46 EDT
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In article <16128@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Not Action) writes:
>Is there any way to embed newlines into alias definitions?
>
Let me expand the question.  Is there a way to put a *foreach* in an alias
definition. Try doing this:

alias test	'foreach i (\!*) \
		 echo $i \
		 end'

And watch your (mine, at least) csh core dump.  I think it has to do
with how csh determins whether you're on a interactive session or not.
The same alias executed from a shell script seems to work well.

P.S.  Don't try this on your login shell.
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
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