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Old 02-12-2008, 08:10 AM   #1
chrisrose21117
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interactive tcsh and argv


Hi all,

I have, in a .cshrc file ported from my old unix .alias file, some aliases like this;

alias oneCol 'tr " " "\012" < $1 > $2'

I'm running interactive tcsh on linux, and these aliases fail here, like this;

> oneCol test1 testOut
tcsh: $1: Ambiguous.

I believe this is because argv is not set for these interactive tcsh commands. Is there some way to force argv to be set in interactive linux (OS X) tcsh? Or what would an equivalent tcsh alias be? (Please don't tell me to use some other shell. There's got to be some way to pass command line arguments to an alias.)

Thanks -
 
Old 02-12-2008, 10:50 AM   #2
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I believe this is because argv is not set for these interactive tcsh commands. Is there some way to force argv to be set in interactive linux (OS X) tcsh? Or what would an equivalent tcsh alias be? (Please don't tell me to use some other shell. There's got to be some way to pass command line arguments to an alias.)

Thanks -
So, are you using Linux or OS X?

I know that my favorite (Z Shell) has a translation utility. Are you sure you're using tcsh and not bash? Bash is the default in Linux and newer released of OS X.

Joel
 
Old 02-12-2008, 01:11 PM   #3
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I am using OS X, but I'm using tcsh instead of bash as my shell.
 
Old 02-14-2008, 10:38 AM   #4
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Here's the answer

alias oneCol 'tr " " "\012" < \!:1 > \!:2'

This is not the best example as this is conceivably a command that you might want to pipe to or from, but at least here is an example of the correct syntax.
 
  


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