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Originally Posted by giuinha

rather than a basic tutorial, i'm hoping someone can tell me how to gain this one functionality in my script.

why use tcsh? my guess is because the software package i'm running is basically a collection of C programs and most of the scripting from the developers uses tcsh.

I don't see what C has to do with tcsh, but maybe you mean that there is already a bunch of tcsh scripts, and want to extend the functionality, so you want to stick with tcsh.

I personally would even in this case write new features in Zsh or bash or some other suitable language (Ruby, Python, Perl), but of course this is everyone's personal taste. If you really want to continue with tcsh, I fear there is not much alternative, and you will have to spend a day or so going through the tutorial and at least part of the man-page.

If you really need help here, you need to ask a concrete question. The way you asked, is to broad. With which tcsh statement do you have a problem? You could for instance post a statement in bash and ask how to express something similar in tcsh.

Still then, it's not sure that you will get much response, because tcsh is so rarely used. Maybe there are some dedicated tcsh forums around?

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surfraw-update-path

SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)

NAME

       surfraw-update-path - updates PATH in shell config files

SYNOPSIS

       surfraw-update-path [-add] [-remove] [-check] [-sys] [-all] [-help] [-shell=SHELL]

DESCRIPTION

       surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file.

       Currently it supports bash, sh, csh, tcsh, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es

       Don't forget to login again or source your login files for it to take effect.

OPTIONS

       -check
	   Checks to see if the surfraw config code is present.  This is the default.

       -add
	   Adds the surfraw config code.

       -remove
	   Removes the surfraw config code

       -sys
	   Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user.  Must be done as root.

       -shell=SHELL
	   Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable.

	   Currently supported shells are:

	   sh, ash, bash, dash, csh, tcsh, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es.

       -all
	   Attempts to configure the startup files for all known shells

       -help
	   Gives a usage message

RETURN VALUE

       -check returns 0 if the surfraw code is present in the file, 1 if it is not found, or 2 on error.

       All other options return 0 on success, or 2 on error.

ENVIRONMENT

       SHELL
	   Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given.

       HOME
	   Used to find users config files.

       ENV Used by posix-compliant shells to specify a startup rc file.

       ZDOTDIR
	   Used to find user config files for zsh. If not set, defaults to HOME.

SEE ALSO

       surfraw(1), sh(1), ash(1), bash(1), dash(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), ksh(1), pdksh(1), zsh(1), rc(1), es(1)

AUTHOR

       Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net>

perl v5.12.4							    2011-07-12						    SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)

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