Help needed with conditional statement for alias in csh

[Dave Eisen]

In article <1990Sep18.223605.29379 at eua.ericsson.se> per at erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland) writes:
>IMHO the best solution is to use the other conditional construct, that
>happens to be common to sh and csh, and apparently unbroken in the latter:
>
>test -s /usr/spool/mail/miller && (echo ""; echo "New mail"; echo "")
>

Speak for your own C-shell. 

In SCO Xenix, the C-shell thinks it really is C:

	test -s /usr/spool/mail/miller 

returns 0 (assuming the file is nonempty) so the C-shell doesn't 
evaluate the second half of the conditional expression.

&& and || both work exactly the opposite of how one would expect them to 
work (and of how they do in fact work in the Bourne shell).



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