YA bug(?) in csh
MFHorn
arosen at hawk.ulowell.edu
Sat Sep 2 04:17:38 AEST 1989
An annoying behavior of csh (and sh) is non-interactive shells will
terminate if a builtin command returns a non-zero status. Sh documents
this, csh doesn't (at least in the SunOS 4.x manuals).
Is there a way to make a shell script continue after a builtin command
fails? I'd prefer a method for csh; I'd hate to have to rewrite 1,000
lines of scripts in a shell I'm less familiar with.
Prevention by carefulness is not an acceptable method (unless it's the
ONLY method). These scripts are being executed by 6 versions of unix
on 14 different configurations.
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