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From: scott@csusac.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to get the pathname of the current executable?
Message-ID: <1990Feb13.044520.3487@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 04:45:20 GMT
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In article <5378@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>(someone please tell me why which(1) reads the .cshrc...)
Because 'which' is a C-shell script itself...and when a C-shell script is called
a new csh is forked, and .cshrc is read whenever a csh is started up.
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