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Old 06-28-2010
Reading a variable in csh

I have a simple script that sets a value and reads the value in csh:

Code:
set -x
set a = 10
echo $a

The output of the script does not show the value of a

Code:
+ set a = 10
+ echo

any help would be great.

Last edited by pludi; 06-28-2010 at 09:41 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
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Old 06-28-2010
I think CSH uses "setenv" to set environment variables.
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Old 06-28-2010
I dont need to make it an environment variable
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Old 06-28-2010
Hi

Are you sure you are running your script in csh? Because 'set -x' will throw an error in csh since 'set' should follow a variable name.

It looks to be it is some other shell such as ksh/sh, which is why on doing 'set -x', it went into debug mode, and on giving 'set a = 10', it did not set 10 to a, instead it made the string 'a=10' as a command line argument($1).

Guru.
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Old 06-28-2010
I missed the shebang. It works now!
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