csh programming problem

Jonathan I. Kamens jik at athena.mit.edu
Thu Mar 15 14:25:05 AEST 1990


In article <SCOTT.90Mar14212616 at oswy.cs.odu.edu>, scott at cs.odu.edu
(Scott Yelich) 
writes:
> >I am trying to write a shell script that takes several arguments and
> >passes them to child processes, i.e.
> >#!/bin/csh
> >...
> 
> foo "$@"
> bar "$@"

  Notice that he was talking about a *C shell* script.

  $@ is a *bourne shell* construct.  It doesn't work in the C shell.

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P.S. Any particular reason why your signature contained almost an entire
page full of blank lines?



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