tcsh is not csh
Kevin Lyons
klyons at corserv.corserv.com
Thu Nov 11 13:33:42 PST 2004
I have (re)discovered that tcsh is not csh although the tcsh man page
falsely asserts backward compatibility. Trying to do a simple read of
multiword variables in tcsh fails yet works find on csh. The tcsh man page
admits as much when one gets to the $< part.
The point is, csh should be the basic backward compatibly lowest common
denominator between systems. This is a real problem. I humbly suggest that
those that want the bang of tcsh can do a pkg_add just like the morons that
want bash instead of sh.
If you want to try an example, do the following on csh, and then on tcsh.
#!/bin/csh
echo enter some words
set line = $<
set words = ($line)
echo line is $line
echo word1 is $word[1]
echo word2 is $word[2]
echo word3 is $word[3]
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The fact that tcsh can not do this in default mode is beyond pathetic. What
is worse is that freebsd didn't notice or care.
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