csh pleasures

[Paul Falstad]

tve at sprite.berkeley.edu (Thorsten von Eicken) wrote:
>  if($a) then
>     if($b) then

This is a known bug.  To fix it you can put a space between the 'if' and
the '(' that starts the condition.  csh is too stupid to see the 'if'
if it is not followed by a space.  Use a real shell.  (sh, ksh, ... )

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