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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Modifying from borne shell to C shell Post 2192 by PxT on Thursday 26th of April 2001 04:18:12 PM
Old 04-26-2001
-z tests whether the file is zero size. So you can do ! -z to test for greater than 0. This is in the csh man page.

BTW, I would strongly consider avoiding csh for shell programming tasks as it is fairly inadequate in several areas. See: <A HREF="http://www.perl.com/pub/language/versus/csh.html">Csh Programming Considered Harmful</A> by Tom Christiansen.
 

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LEARN ABOUT POSIX

suspend

suspend(1)							   User Commands							suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

   ksh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    15 Apr 1994 							suspend(1)
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