weird csh thing

[Christos S. Zoulas]

In article <1991Jan7.142732.28884 at unvax.union.edu> boehme at unvax.union.edu (Eric M. Boehm) writes:
>bagchi at eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi) writes:
>
>>$ set p = "w | tail +3 "
>>$ echo $p
>>w | tail +3
>>$ $p
>>Usage: w [ -hlsuw ] [ user ]
>>$ w | tail +3
>>benjo    ttyp3    10:13pm           41      4  -sh
>>benjo    ttyp4    10:17pm         3:22      4  -csh
>>$ exit
>>$ exit
>
>>shouldn't "$p" have the same effect as "w | tail +3" ?
>
>No, it should not. It has to do with the way the C Shell parses the
>command line. The following is taken from "The UNIX C Shell Field
>Guide, Gail Anderson, Paul Anderson, Prentice Hall, 1986, ISBN
>0-13-937468-X", pages 262-266. (I highly recommend it).
> ... lines deleted...

The above information is correct. On the other hand:

$ eval $p

should work, but it does not because eval in csh is broken.

christos
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