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Month: January 2025


tcsh script behavior change

By: | Post date: January 31, 2025 | Comments: No Comments

Posted in categories: Computer Tips, Work related

Recently I noticed a tcsh behavior change. CentOS7, Rocky 8, Ubuntu 20.04, Fedora 41, and Linux Mint if you have a string variable in tcsh, like set a=”mystring” and attempt to get its path when treating is as a filename: set b=”$a:h” it will return $a itself. To be noted that the expect behavior when […]