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tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell, csh.

Quoted from the manpage:

tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell csh It is a command language interpreter usable both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command processor. It includes a command-line editor, programmable word completion, spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C-like syntax.

tcsh is the default shell on FreeBSD & DragonFly BSD, and was the default shell on earlier versions on Mac OS X.

Since tcsh is completely compatible with , almost all versions of csh encountered are actually tcsh.

Official site: http://www.tcsh.org/

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How can I echo commands in a tcsh script?

Yes. I know I shouldn't be using it for scripting. Yes. It is rubbish. I am indeed a fool. Nevertheless. I'd like to see the commands the script is executing, for debugging purposes. I think you get this effect with set -x or set -v in bash…
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Linux alias chain commands (can recursion be avoided?)

I've been looking around for ways to alias clear and ls into one command. Currently I've defined command x: alias x="clear;ls" Now is there any walkaround to avoid recursion and define: alias ls='clear;ls'
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Redirect Standard Output/error to log file

Looking for a way to redirect std error and std output to a log file in Tcsh shell. Tried ./ShellFile.sh 2>&1 | pathToLogFile.log and got the error "Ambiguous output redirect" Would appreciate any inputs.
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Redirecting stderr in csh

I'm executing a program that dumps crash report into STDERR from where I have to filter some necessary information. The problem is that I'm unable to redirect STDERR to STDOUT and PIPE it with grep command 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep "^[^-]" >&…
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python subprocess.call() "no such file or directory"

I've found a few questions on the module but the more common problem seems to be getting the argument list right which I think I have managed (eventually) I am trying to run a program that expects an input like this in the command line, fits2ndf in…
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Expand aliases in non-interactive shells

In bash, we can use shopt -s expand_aliases to expand aliases in scripts. What are the equivalent commands for zsh, csh, and tcsh? Do they even exist? In focusing my efforts on zsh, I haven’t found such a command. I even tried sourcing the file with…
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Unix tcsh - alias using command line argument $1 versus \!:1

In Unix (tcsh), I've referenced command line arguments in my aliases with two different notations - $1 and \!:1. But I noticed that if I try to save $1 to an environment variable, it doesn't get saved. However \!:1 does get saved. alias hear 'setenv…
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"Event not found" error for shell command in unix

when i am trying to remove consecutive duplicate lines with awk "!x[$0]++" file its reporting x[: Event not found. even the same case with sed -i -e "$!N; /^\(.*\)\n\1$/!P;D" file as well reporting N: Event not found. i tried with single quotes…
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Exit tcsh script if error

I am tryin to write a tcsh script. I need the script exit if any of its commands fails. In shell I use set -e but I don't know its equivalent in tcsh #!/usr/bin/env tcsh set NAME=aaaa set VERSION=6.1 #set -e equivalent #do somthing Thanks
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Bash's equivalent of Tcsh's ESC-p to jump to command starting with what you typed so far

I recently made the insanely long overdue switch from tcsh to bash. The only thing I miss is tcsh's ESC+p feature: Start typing a command and then hit ESC+p (I actually found the equivalent ctrl-[p easier to type) and it jumps to the most recent…
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How can I find the location of the tcsh shell script I'm executing?

Say I put an executable tcsh file in /path/to/my_script.csh and my current directory is anywhere, for example I'm in /path So I type to/my_script.csh I want to have a line in my_script.csh that will return "/path/to/my_script.csh" - like ruby's…
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How to map Delete and End keys on tcsh shell?

I use tcsh , and when Delete/End is pressed on cmd line, it simply shows up as ~ ; I have to press to go to end of line. Can anyone help me to be able to use Delete/End keys as their name suggests ?
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Assigning command output to a shell variable

I am trying to assign output of a cut command to a variable, however I am running into a strange problem. I am using tcsh shell. $echo $0 tcsh This is the command I am running: $set a=`cut -f2 -d' ' test.txt` Missing }. //This is the output I am…
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Specify command line arguments like name=value pairs for shell script

Is it possible to pass command line arguments to shell script as name value pairs, something like myscript action=build module=core and then in my script, get the variable like $action and process it? I know that $1....and so on can be used to…
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Bad : modifier in $ (/)

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/my/lib error: Bad : modifier in $ (/) echo $SHELL /bin/tcsh I want to add my library to LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. But Gives the above error.
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