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Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christopher Spears <cspears2002 AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: problems with script
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Christopher Spears wrote:
> 
> > I created the following script:
> >
> > #!/bin/tcsh
> >
> > #csh script to prepend standard input to file
> argument
> > #Version 1
> >
> > #name temp file
> > set tf = /tmp/ppd.$$
> >
> > #get argument name
> > set dest = $argv[1]
> >
> > #copy standard input, $dest to $tf
> > cat - $dest > $tf
> >
> > #replace original file
> > mv $tf $dest
> >
> > However, when I run the script in the tcsh with
> the
> > following command line:
> > (date; du ~) | ./ppd.txt ~/disk_storage&
> >
> > I get a syntax error (set: Syntax Error).
> >
> > I posted this script on an online Linux forum.  A
> > member copied it into vi, and it worked fine.  Is
> > there something in Cygwin that I need to do?  I
> have
> > written #!/bin/tcsh at the top, and I haved used
> set
> > before in tcsh.
> 
> Nope.  WFM in Cygwin 1.5.9, tcsh 6.12.00, Win2k. 
> This could be caused by
> the presence of a control character in your script
> (e.g., if you edited it
> in MS Word).  Try changing the first line to
> "#!/bin/tcsh -x" to see
> exactly which commands are invoked.  Pipe stderr
> through "cat -A" to see
> any special characters.
> 	Igor
> -- 

I changed the first line to "!/bin/tcsh -x", and then
tried to run the script again.  Here are the results:

set tf = /tmp/ppd.1316
set dest = /home/Christopher Spears/disk_storage
set: Syntax error

So it seems the first two lines work...Right?  What is stderr?

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