unsetenv TERMCAP in a csh

Leo de Wit leo at philmds.UUCP
Thu May 19 20:22:44 AEST 1988


In article <3780 at csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf at csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes:
> ...[stuff deleted]...
>Aliases work much better because they are executed in the current 
>environment, whereas scripts are run in a new shell. ...and there is
>no way to change the parent's environment just bu calling a script.

Try the Bourne shell; it has a . command (. script = read commands from script)
so that the parent (the shell) itself reads the commands. But you probably
like the csh better ??!

      Leo (Bourne to be wild).



More information about the Comp.unix.questions mailing list