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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Make & .cshrc
Message-ID: <29592@bbn.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 88 20:56:39 GMT
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From article <21621@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, by karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste):
> You should set prompt
> iff there already exists a prompt, i.e.,
> 	if ($?prompt) then
> 		alias cd 'chdir \!*; set prompt="$cwd> "'
> 	endif
> 
> Otherwise, you're unconditionally introducing a prompt into a context
> where none should exist.  (And didn't exist, since csh knew whether it
> was running interactively from a tty, and sets prompt only if so.)

Or more generally, put the following line at the top of your .cshrc
file:

    if ($?prompt == 0) exit

Since most users only need the stuff in .cshrc when they'll be typing to
the shell.  This speeds up programs which might invoke csh (such as
make(1)) as well as dain bramaged shell C-shell scripts which don't have
the -f option in their first line.

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