Getting csh prompt to display the current dir.
R. L. Welsh
rikki at macom1.UUCP
Wed Apr 5 03:32:47 AEST 1989
> I also cannot properly use the source command. Does anyone out there have any
> useful suggestions for a poor user of a brain-dead C-shell? [I say that for
...
Did you mean that "source" doesn't work right in your brain-dead C-shell or
that you weren't certain of it's use?
If it's the latter:
source is equivalent to the "." command in sh, which means
to run a shell script in the context of the current one instead of creating
a new one. E.g.,
Create a short file which contains something like:
#!/bin/csh
setenv var new
and name it "x" and make it executable. Then type:
setenv var old
x
echo $var
"var" will still be set to "old". But if you type:
source x
echo $var
"var" will now be set to "new".
In the case of the former:
Sorry.
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- Rikki (UUCP: grebyn!macom1!rikki)
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