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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Weird things in csh (and kernel?)
Message-ID: <7368@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 28 Feb 88 01:45:22 GMT
References: <1193@ark.cs.vu.nl> <662@sjoerd.cs.vu.nl> <1195@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: csh, script

In article <1195@ark.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Isn't it a BOURNE shell that is forked off, which won't execute ~/.cshrc?

It ought to be (since otherwise the behavior of a shell script would
depend on which shell the invoker happened to be using), but most Cshell
implementations I've run across think that anonymous scripts should be
interpreted by (an instance of) them.