Csh /Tcsh Issue

[Ben Eisenbraun]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:56:11PM -0500, 100ji wrote:
> I have an issue with csh and environment variables. In csh/tcsh I can only
> use environment variables when I quote them. For example see the example
> below:
> 
> providence% setenv CLASSPATH
> "/u/suman/installs/aspectj1.6/lib/:/u/suman/installs/lib/java/*.jar:."
> providence% echo $CLASSPATH
> echo: No match.

That "echo: No match" is your shell telling you that there's no match for 
/u/suman/installs/lib/java/*.jar.

That's the reason you have to quote them in order to set them as well.

[cider:~] bene% setenv FOO *.txt
*.txt: No match.
[cider:~] bene% setenv FOO "*.txt"
[cider:~] bene% echo $FOO
echo: No match.
[cider:~] bene% touch file.txt
[cider:~] bene% setenv FOO *.txt
[cider:~] bene% echo $FOO
file.txt

I suspect your environment variables will work fine without the shell
wildcards in them.

BTW, the CLASSPATH can usually point to a directory of .jar files without 
explicitly naming them, although this may be dependent on which version of 
java you're using.

-ben

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