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From: dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: AIX "csh" silently exits from csh scripts
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Date: 24 Feb 89 19:01:14 GMT
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In article <9422@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dyer@arktouros.mit.edu (Steve Dyer) writes:
>Briefly, in attempting to port a large software product whose
>installation scripts use the C-Shell, I'm finding that most of
>them, when running under AIX, just exit without executing any commands.

Just a few more details: we're running AIX 2.2.1, and the problem can
be better described as C-shell scripts invoked by their absolute
pathname work fine, but single component names fail silently.

I.e., if the file /tmp/foo contains
#!/bin/csh
echo foo

and is mode 755, owner root, the following all fail:
cd /tmp
foo
./foo
csh foo

but either of these succeed:

/tmp/foo
csh /tmp/foo
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Steve Dyer
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