Problems with csh

[Carl Boberg]

Er,

When run with -e I get no output and when I echo $status I get null 
[root at mail ~]# csh -e test
[root at mail ~]# echo $status

[root at mail ~]#

Without -e
[root at mail ~]# csh test
0
DFK
0
[root at mail ~]#

Hmm...

/ C

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I get result 0 on my RH9/FC4/RHEL3/RHEL4 boxes ... 
> So I guess it could be local to your install.
> 
> / Carl
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark 
> > Waterhouse
> > Sent: den 26 juli 2006 13:22
> > To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: Problems with csh
> > 
> > Has anyone got any thoughts on this problem?
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Waterhouse" <mark at dfk-systems.com>
> > To: <redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:09 PM
> > Subject: Problems with csh
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > A user on our campus has discovered a small bug within csh
> > that I would
> > > like to share with the community; predominately to confirm
> > if this is a
> > > bug and, if it, to see what you all think.
> > >
> > > My user is trying to capture the exit status of csh when
> > running against a
> > > certain internal script.
> > > For the sake of completeness, I've created a very small
> > script which does
> > > nothing but echo a string.
> > >
> > > The script, called 'test', looks like this;
> > > [sysadmin at ns02 ~]$ cat test
> > > echo $status
> > > echo DFK
> > > echo $status
> > >
> > > On each machine that I tested this on (Centos/FC3/FC1), I
> > get an output of
> > > "1".
> > > On the FreeBSD, Solaris and SuSE boxes, I get the correct output.
> > >
> > > Do you think this is a bug?
> > > fwiw, I noticed that on the Centos/FCx/RHEL boxes, /bin/csh
> > is symlinked
> > > to /bin/tcsh. Ah....except that the same is true for SuSE.
> > >
> > > Any ideas greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Centos 3.6
> > > [sysadmin at ns02 sysadmin]$ csh
> > > [sysadmin at ns02 ~]$ csh -e test
> > > [sysadmin at ns02 ~]$ echo $status
> > > 1
> > >
> > > Fedora Core 3
> > > [root at webhost ~]$ csh
> > > [root at webhost ~]$ csh -e test
> > > [root at webhost ~]$ echo $status
> > > 1
> > >
> > > Fedora Core 1
> > > [mark at secure mark]$ csh
> > > [mark at secure ~]# csh -e test
> > > [mark at secure ~]# echo $status
> > > 1
> > >
> > > FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
> > >> csh
> > > %csh -e test
> > > 0
> > > DFK
> > > 0
> > > %echo $status
> > > 0
> > >
> > > Solaris 2.6 (5.6)
> > > # csh
> > > noo-noo# csh -e test
> > > 0
> > > DFK
> > > 0
> > > noo-noo# echo $status
> > > 0
> > >
> > > SuSE Enterprise Server 9 (x86_64)
> > > octopus % 24 : csh
> > > octopus % 21 : csh -e test
> > > 0
> > > DFK
> > > 0
> > > octopus % 22 : echo $status
> > > 0
> > 
> > 
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