Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:28:00 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Emanuel Strobl <emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no (t)csh read builtin? Message-ID: <425686E0.9040304@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <200504081414.09168@harrymail> References: <200504081414.09168@harrymail>
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Emanuel Strobl wrote:
>how can I interactively read a variable from the command line with tcsh?
>The *[^c]sh command "read" doesn't exist, so how can I do it with csh?
>
>
From man csh:
$< Substitutes a line from the standard input, with no
further
interpretation thereafter. It can be used to read
from the
keyboard in a shell script. (+) While csh always quotes
$<, as
if it were equivalent to `$<:q', tcsh does not.
Furthermore,
when tcsh is waiting for a line to be typed the user
may type
an interrupt to interrupt the sequence into which the
line is
to be substituted, but csh does not allow this.
--Alex
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