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Old 01-20-2014, 02:42 PM   #1
sharky
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Test if environment variable is set in tcsh


Test variable is MYSETUP.

This is how I am trying to check it.

Code:
#!/bin/tcsh

if ( $?MYSETUP ) then
	echo "IS SET"
else
	echo "NOT SET"
endif
If the variable is not set instead of returning "NOT SET" it returns "MYSETUP: Undefined variable.".

With the variable set it echos the value and returns "IS SET".

Looks like the shell is doing something with the conditional besides just testing for TRUE or FALSE.

This should be trivial but I can't get it to work.

tcsh version is 6.14.00 but I have no root privileges so that can not be changed.

I'm open to suggestions and thanks in advance.
 
Old 01-20-2014, 03:08 PM   #2
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I'm sure I'm not stupid but that does not prevent me from occasionally doing stupid things. I had an echo statement in my ~/.tcshrc that was causing the confusion.

The above code does work.
 
  


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