Re: the fedora csh and goto

Hello, just a short addition to my previous post. JD writes: > I ran your the script used by Michael Welle, but changes > #!/bin/csh > to > #!/bin/tcsh > > and it displayes the same problem: > > Cat /tmp/test-csh-goto > #/bin/tcsh this wrong shebang l

Re: the fedora csh and goto

Hello, JD writes: > On 08/21/2017 01:16 AM, Michael Welle wrote: >> Hallo, >> >> JD writes: >> >>> The manpage for the fedora csh describes the usage of goto, >>> but it does not work. >>> Anyone with insight on this? >>> >>&

Re: the fedora csh and goto

Hallo, JD writes: > The manpage for the fedora csh describes the usage of goto, > but it does not work. > Anyone with insight on this? > > If you CAN make it work, please provide > a skeleton of the script where the label > is visible and the goto statement is visible :) what does 'does not work

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

Hello, Patrick O'Callaghan writes: > On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 15:00 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: >> Remark: Working with aliases seems to be a bit sophisticated :-) > > Not really. IIRC aliases predate functions. They were first introduced > in the C Shell (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_(

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

Hello, Michael Welle writes: > Hello, > > Philip Brown writes: > >> same problem... not on my terminal >> >> bash-4.3$ x 1 >> PAR=1 >> >> but I must say you explained "the why" very well regards the initial >> empty parameter >

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

Hello, Philip Brown writes: > same problem... not on my terminal > > bash-4.3$ x 1 > PAR=1 > > but I must say you explained "the why" very well regards the initial > empty parameter by problem I mean the expectation that $1 has any meaning in this context. It looks like it will work, but it will

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

Hello, Philip Brown writes: > i think that is a feature of echo > if you want without the space you could use printf > > alias x='printf "PAR=%s\n" $1' same problem as with the initial question. What value does the $1 have? It is empty. alias does not expect any parameters, if that might be the

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

Hello, Joachim Backes writes: > Hi all, > > Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. > > My problem: suppose you define an alias: > > alias x='echo PAR=$1' > > Now call the alias by: > > x 1 > > Output: PAR= 1 > > My question: why do I get the blank before the "1"? because you wrote it when formu