run a tcsh script file with arguments from windows

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Wed Jun 20 17:04:00 GMT 2007


Tony B wrote:

> If I execute
> tcsh -c scriptfile inputfile
> tcsh uses inputfile as an argument to itself, not as an argument to the
> script.
> So if I run this command, I get a useage error from the script as it expects
> a filename ?

When using -c with any of the POSIX shells, the (singular) argument
following -c is the command to be executed, so if this command consists
of more than one word you have to quote it so that it's parsed as a
single argument.

Brian

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