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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Weird things in csh (and kernel?)
Message-ID: <1198@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 1 Mar 88 03:26:06 GMT
References: <1193@ark.cs.vu.nl> <662@sjoerd.cs.vu.nl> <1195@ark.cs.vu.nl> <7368@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Keywords: csh, script

In article <7368@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
\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.

% cat gnome
alias	l	ls -l
% ls -l gnome
-rwxr-xr-x 1 3754         14 Mar  1 14:20 gnome
% gnome
gnome: alias: not found
%

This shows that normally a Bourne shell indeed is forked off...
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