Re: Customizable filesystem support for GNUstep

[Robert Slover]

This was news to me.  Thanks.  I rarely use CSH, and this worked on the 
two boxes I tried it on.

But you are correct, just tried this on Solaris and it fails.  They 
more-or-less apologize for this in the NOTES on the CSH man page.

Thanks,

--Robert

On Mar 9, 2007, at 5:37 AM, Wolfgang Lux wrote:

> Robert Slover wrote:
>
> > To avoid the overhead of starting the Bourne shell just to utilize 
> > IFS, you can use a csh variable modifier to break the path up on each 
> > ':'
> >
> > foreach dir ( "" ${GNUSTEP_TOOLS_PATHLIST:as~:~ ~} )
> >
> > instead of
> >
> > foreach dir ( `/bin/sh -c 'IFS=:; for i in 
> > '"${GNUSTEP_TOOLS_PATHLIST}"'; do echo $i; done'` )
> >
> > :a --> apply to all
> > :s~a~b~  --> substitute string b for string a
> >
> > (Note that there is a space between the last two tildes, so this 
> > substitutes a space for all colon delimiters in the variable value).
>
> Well, yes -- except that it is not portable. For instance, /bin/csh
> on Solaris does not support :s modifiers on variables (and neither
> understands the a modifier).
>
> Regards
> Wolfgang