In bash, I can use $? to get the return status of the last command executed. 
How do I do the equivilant in csh?

Thanks

~Shea M.

>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:45:05 -0600,
>> Shea Martin <smartin@arcis.com> said:

> In bash, I can use $? to get the return status of the last
> command executed.  How do I do the equivilant in csh?

man csh ->

    Environment Variables and Predefined Shell Variables ->

        status

hth
t

Tony Curtis wrote:
>>>On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:45:05 -0600,
>>>Shea Martin <smartin@arcis.com> said:
> 
> 
>>In bash, I can use $? to get the return status of the last
>>command executed.  How do I do the equivilant in csh?
> 
> 
> man csh ->
> 
>     Environment Variables and Predefined Shell Variables ->
> 
>         status
> 
> hth
> t

Thanks,

I did peruse the man page, but I was looking of for something cryptic like 
bourne's $?.

~S

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Shea Martin wrote:

> I did peruse the man page, but I was looking of for something cryptic like
> bourne's $?.

Why are you wasting your time scripting stuff in csh?  Do
a search for "csh why not" to see why it's best avoided.

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Rich Teer wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Shea Martin wrote:
> 
> 
>>I did peruse the man page, but I was looking of for something cryptic like
>>bourne's $?.
> 
> 
> Why are you wasting your time scripting stuff in csh?  Do
> a search for "csh why not" to see why it's best avoided.
> 

Rich, hmm..... I always thought that csh was not the ideal shell to use 
(AKA junk). Thus I was very surprised to see that Sun's Looking Glass 
project has most (if not all) of its scripts written in csh. Any 
thoughts as to why? I s'pose I could always email Hideya, or post on an 
lg3d forum...

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Beardy wrote:

> Rich, hmm..... I always thought that csh was not the ideal shell to use
> (AKA junk). Thus I was very surprised to see that Sun's Looking Glass
> project has most (if not all) of its scripts written in csh. Any

Oh dear...

> thoughts as to why? I s'pose I could always email Hideya, or post on an
> lg3d forum...

That's what I'd do.  My guess is that Hideya uses csh (or a derivative)
as his usual interactive shell, so naturally wrote the scripts in it.
Nothing wrong with using csh as your shell of choice, but writing
scripts in it is NOT a good practice, IMHO.

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming",
published in August 2004.

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
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Rich Teer wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Beardy wrote:
> 
> 
>>Rich, hmm..... I always thought that csh was not the ideal shell to use
>>(AKA junk). Thus I was very surprised to see that Sun's Looking Glass
>>project has most (if not all) of its scripts written in csh. Any
> 
> 
> Oh dear...

Indeedi.

> 
> 
>>thoughts as to why? I s'pose I could always email Hideya, or post on an
>>lg3d forum...
> 
> 
> That's what I'd do.  My guess is that Hideya uses csh (or a derivative)
> as his usual interactive shell, so naturally wrote the scripts in it.
> Nothing wrong with using csh as your shell of choice, but writing
> scripts in it is NOT a good practice, IMHO.
> 

Agreed - and your O should not be H ;-)

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Beardy wrote:

> Agreed - and your O should not be H ;-)

Some people think I need to be more H!  :-)

*Shrug* Ah well, ya can't please 'em all...

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming",
published in August 2004.

President,
Rite Online Inc.

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