Re^2: Should ``csh'' be part of the System V distribution?

Rahul Dhesi dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP
Fri May 20 02:07:17 AEST 1988


In article <7924 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
writes:
>Csh ... sources .cshrc even for
>scripts...

On 4.3BSD systems, a script that begins with "#! /bin/csh -f" will be
executed by csh without invoking .cshrc.  Note that csh was designed
for 4.xBSD.  This mechanism works well and gives the user a choice.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi



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