[lug] passing arguments to C shell script ?

Tom Tromey tromey at cygnus.com
Mon Jan 31 11:14:28 MST 2000


>>>>> "arnie" == arnie  <asherman1 at uswest.net> writes:

arnie> I have been told that it is not possible to pass command line
arnie> arguments into a C shell script. Does anyone know if this is
arnie> true. Seems hard to believe, but i have not been able to get it
arnie> to work so far.

It is possible, but the real answer is "don't write a C shell script".
There's a nice document by Tom Christiansen (IIRC) which explains why not.
(I lost my copy, though.)

Tom




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