Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 16:17:21 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh if..then delhema. Message-ID: <20070909131721.GA1859@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <006901c7f2e1$0067bb30$6501a8c0@GRANT> References: <000801c7f274$6fae71e0$6501a8c0@GRANT> <20070909020657.GA4912@kobe.laptop> <46E367F7.6060705@u.washington.edu> <20070909081927.GB98684@thought.org> <006901c7f2e1$0067bb30$6501a8c0@GRANT>
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On 2007-09-09 08:57, Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> wrote: > Thanks for the input gentlemen, > Interesting to that the question was posted by G(rant) and then > answered by G(ary), G(arrett) and G(iorgos)! (what are the odds!). Haha :) > Anywho, I am busily converting the script to perl as per the > suggestions. I use tcsh rarely, had I of known the quirks I woul shave > done it in perl from the beguining. > > As for Garrett's case method, it didnt work. Created a "case: Too many > arguments." error. Perhaps because it itself is nested in a 'foreach' > statement. `foreach' is a csh construct. If you copied the case/esac code posted by Garrett, then it wouldn't work. The syntax used by Garrett was for the Bourne shell (hence the /bin/sh reference above case). If you are going to convert everything to /bin/sh, you may as well convert it to Perl unless there is some very good reason to use only the pretty minimal data-structures supported by the Bourne shell (i.e. because you want to run the script in environments where Perl may be too much to require). - Giorgos
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