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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tcsh Shell trouble Post 302895241 by Perderabo on Sunday 30th of March 2014 12:29:43 AM
Old 03-30-2014
Posix, in their wisdom mandated that shells should follow this rule... "Only the decimal-constant, octal-constant, and hexadecimal-constant constants specified in the ISO C standard, Section 6.4.4.1 are required to be recognized as constants". For some reason, shells that are totally non-posix in nature like csh and tcsh are adopting this rule. It has broken a lot of scripts including several hundred of my own. I fixed them all rather than fighting it. But I use ksh which can easily strip off the leading zero. There is no great solution to offer someone who has a lot of csh scripts.

There is no easy way to say this, but if you insist on creating lots of csh scripts you better prepare yourself to face problems with no good solutions. The right answer is to write your scripts in bash or ksh. I know you don't want to hear that, but it's the truth.
 

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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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