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From: jerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: hold -- a program to buffer input
Message-ID: <590@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 88 14:29:46 GMT
References: <8082@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <4623@whuts.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Jerry Peek)
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Organization: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse NY
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[Sorry for posting this.  Mail to him bounced.]

In article <4623@whuts.UUCP> wsd@whuts.UUCP (54299-DINSMORE,W.S.) writes:
> 
> 	Would someone please me a way to do this in the C_Shell?

Here it is.

--Jerry Peek, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse, NY
  jerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu
  +1 315 443-1722

-----  CUT HERE -----------------------------------------------------------
#! /bin/sh
# This is a shell archive, meaning:
# 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line.
# 2. Save the resulting text in a file.
# 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create the files:
#	hold.csh
# This archive created: Mon Aug  8 10:26:18 1988
export PATH; PATH=/bin:$PATH
if test -f 'hold.csh'
then
	echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'hold.csh'"
else
cat << \SHAR_EOF > 'hold.csh'
#! /bin/csh -f
if ( $#argv > 1 ) then
  # USE sh TO PUT ERROR ON stderr:
  sh -ce "echo 'Usage: hold [file]' 1>&2"
  exit 1
endif

onintr cleanup
set f=/tmp/hold.$$

cat > $f
switch ($#argv)
case 0:
   cat $f; breaksw
case 1:
   cat $f > "$1"; breaksw
endsw

cleanup:
	/bin/rm -f $f
	exit 0
SHAR_EOF
chmod +x 'hold.csh'
fi # end of overwriting check
#	End of shell archive
exit 0