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TCSH scripts that use the same variable names
If I run two different TCSH scripts simultaneously that use identical variable names will this cause any problems?
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Old 01-06-2013
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Originally Posted by thibodc
If I run two different TCSH scripts simultaneously that use identical variable names will this cause any problems?
Each process running a script will have its own copy (not shared) of the variables it uses.

However, if two or more script write to a single file, output from one copy of the script may be interleaved with output from other scripts, overwrite output from from other scripts, or may be appended to output from other scripts depending on timing and the modes uses when the output files are opened. Similar problems may apply to input files if the input files are not regular files or if a regular file is modified while one or more copies of the script are running.
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