I don't know why you're being downvoted. You're correct, and as the other commenter mentioned, csh programming is evil in the eyes of the LORD. Starting last year, I've been maintaining a bash profile that implements (mostly) the same setup as my tcsh configuration. I suppose I ought to make the final leap into something more modern. It would be nice not to jump through hoops to redirect stderr somewhere different than stdout or [insert your favorite of the myriad examples of csh/tcsh weirdness here]! But I feel irrationally sad about it. I cut my teeth on Unix systems where csh was the default shell—namely, NeXTstep and sunOS 4—and it feels a little like saying the final goodbyes to a dead friend. Silly of me, I realize, but there it is.
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I don't know why you're being downvoted. You're correct, and as the other commenter mentioned, csh programming is evil in the eyes of the LORD. Starting last year, I've been maintaining a bash profile that implements (mostly) the same setup as my tcsh configuration. I suppose I ought to make the final leap into something more modern. It would be nice not to jump through hoops to redirect stderr somewhere different than stdout or [insert your favorite of the myriad examples of csh/tcsh weirdness here]! But I feel irrationally sad about it. I cut my teeth on Unix systems where csh was the default shell—namely, NeXTstep and sunOS 4—and it feels a little like saying the final goodbyes to a dead friend. Silly of me, I realize, but there it is.