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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 12:02:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christopher Spears <cspears2002 AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: writing csh scripts with cygwin
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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I've been writing some csh scripts with cygwin and
encountering a lot of problems.  I will admit that I
am just learning, but I copied the scripts directly
from the book!  I checked out the FAQ, and I am
wondering if the reason why the scripts are not
working are that they are being interpreted by bash
not tcsh.  Is this possible?  Here is an example.  My
script is:

#csh that gives system status

set d = `date`
echo "Today's date: $d[2-3] $d[6]"
echo "Current time: $d[4]"
echo Number of users: `who | wc -l`
echo Current disk storage: ` du -s .`

Here is the response:

Today's date: [2-3] [6]
Current time: [4]
Number of users: 0
Current disk storage: 7 .

Originally, the . was a ~ but that wasn't working
because for some reason cygwin wasn't recognizing it. 
Using the FAQ for advice, I replaced ~ with $HOME
which caused problems because my home directory is
/home/Christopher Spears, which confuses bash, so I
used ..  Obviously, [2-3], [6], and [4] are not the
answers I was looking for in my script.

What irks my is that I did download tcsh!  Was there
something else I should have downloaded if I want to
write csh scripts?

-Chris

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