Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 07:33:55 -0700 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: tony@hornet.netac.co.za Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Csh Scripting ? Message-ID: <9601181433.AA22131@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199601181351.PAA08194@hornet.netac.co.za> (message from Tony Harverson on Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:51:43 %2B0200 (SAT))
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switch ($MANPATH)
case /usr/local/*:
echo "It's in there"
breaksw
case /usr/share/*:
echo "It's someplace else"
breaksw
default:
echo "Where is it?"
breaksw
endsw
Two notes:
1. Always start your csh scripts with #!/bin/csh -bf
2. Never write csh scripts. I speak from personal experience, but
also see Peek, O'Reilly, Loukides: _Unix Power Tools_, page 948:
``C Shell Programming Considered Harmful.''
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA
If you're an archaeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a
skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it's not a
skull but just an old dried-out potato. -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey
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