:t modifier in tcsh and csh

Ray Wallace wallace at ynotme.enet.dec.com
Thu Jun 13 06:41:18 AEST 1991


In article <10186 at star.cs.vu.nl>, mgemmel at cs.vu.nl (Martin Gemmel) writes...
>Doing  'csh -f bin/script' yields: 'bin/script:t'
In csh you can not use the : modifiers on the positional variables. You will
need to assign $0 to another variable and then use :t on that new variable.

---
Ray Wallace		
		(INTERNET,UUCP) wallace at oldtmr.enet.dec.com
		(UUCP)		...!decwrl!oldtmr.enet!wallace
		(INTERNET)	wallace%oldtmr.enet at decwrl.dec.com
---



More information about the Comp.unix.shell mailing list