csh setenv with `cat ...`

[paul at falstad]

mostek at motcid.UUCP (Frank B. Mostek) wrote:
>I am having a problem with the csh setenv command:
>
>$setenv EXINIT `cat ~/.myexrc`
>`cat ~/.myexrc`: Ambiguous.

The problem is that `cat ~/.myexrc` produces more than one word.  setenv
takes only two arguments.  Do:

setenv EXINIT "`cat ~/.myexrc`"

The double quotes prevent the `...` from being split into words.

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