Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!idallen From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.software Subject: Re: pwsendlogs - look out for itcsh constructs in C shell scripts Message-ID: <11587@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Date: 23 Sep 89 21:07:40 GMT References: <16609@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 12 > From: "John M. Sellens"> | From jmberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu Thu Sep 21 08:05:40 1989 > | > | echo "${0:t}: $host - sending files to '$dest'" Don't try this at home, kids. Stock C shells are too dumb to apply colon (":") operators to numeric dollar ("$") variables or environment variables. ITCSH doesn't have these problems, of course, and lucky for us pwsendlogs uses itcsh instead of csh. -- -IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu 129.97.128.64 Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada