Csh /Tcsh Issue

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:56:11PM -0500, 100ji wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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 $CLASSPATH
> echo: No match.
> providence% echo "$CLASSPATH"
> /u/suman/installs/aspectj1.6/lib/:/u/suman/installs/lib/java/*.jar:.
> 
> While this is not much of an issue for me, it causes issues when I run other
> people's scripts. I have tried using other people's .cshrc where the above
> commands work as expected, but it doesn't seem to work on my machine. I am
> not sure where the problem is. Any ideas on why this is happening?

What happens when you do your work under bash instead?

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