Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!psuvax1!flee From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Re^2: csh: still trying to read file Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 89 23:00:38 GMT References: <2130@pikes.Colorado.EDU> <2156@cveg.uucp> <2239@star.cs.vu.nl> <2171@cveg.uucp> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 9 In-reply-to: jms@hcx.uucp's message of 4 Apr 89 03:43:41 GMT About 'setenv PATH "...:~/bin"', csh does file globbing when it splits $PATH apart into $path (unless $noglob is set). But it doesn't export the globbed names back into $PATH. Children of your csh probably will not interpret "~/bin" properly. The simplest solution is to use "set path = (... ~/bin)" instead. -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!shire!flee