Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:52:19 +0000 From: Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com> To: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C shell scripts (was: Re: which(1), rewritten in C?) Message-ID: <38BFEDC3.83ED3A80@openet-telecom.com> References: <20000303005651.A62723@dragon.nuxi.com> <200003030909.KAA72276@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20000303073621.A91188@dragon.nuxi.com> <5lln40qcpj.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
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Assar Westerlund wrote: > > There's a real reason for not writing this in csh. Because the > built-in function will return results for csh, which might not be the > right ones for other shells. > I got bitten by this by HP-UX 10's csh-based "which". My solaris-hosted NFS home directory had the default Solaris .cshrc that changes $path. Needless to say, "which" was somewhat misleading :-) Ugh. -- Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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