One line If-then-else block in csh possible?

[Calvin Goodrich]

In article <5828 at iron6.UUCP> yeates at motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates) writes:
>harichan at eecae.uucp (Ronald Harichandran) writes:
>
>>Is it possible to have an if-then-else-endif block on a single line?
>
>The only thing I can think of is:-
>
>if () then ; command ; else ; command ; endif
>
>which when I try it does NOT work.
>
>The csh man page says "The words else and endif must be the first nonwhite
>characters on a line."  Oh, it also describes the if() command bug mentioned above.
>Guess we're SOL!

for csh users, yes. for ksh users, no. in ksh you're allowed to use the form:

	if [ expr ]; then <command>; else <other command>; fi

unfortunately, it doesn't work that way for csh. believe me, i've tried
lots-o-different combinations of ;'s but it comes back and says "else: endif
not found". apparently csh requires that the endif be on it's own line.


have a day, eh.

calvin.


Calvin Goodrich   / calvin at sequent.sequent.com a\=k)4vk!%t@$+... <EOT> (beep!)

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