tarsa@decvax.UUCP (Greg Tarsa) (11/02/83)
I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa Subject: csh -n option: what does it do? Newsgroups: unix-wizards I am in the process of verifying that csh command line options perform the way they are described in the documentation. The csh manual page states that the -n option parses commands but does not execute them, making it useful in performing syntax checks on csh scripts. However, my tests seem to show that -n does "nothing". When combined with the -x option, all script lines print out--correct or not. I can use cat for that! Command status is no different when a correct script is run than when a bogus script is run. Can anyone give me more information as to what the -n option can be used for? Please mail replies directly to me. If there is sufficent interest then I'll post replies to the net. Thanks. Greg Tarsa, DEC UNIX Engineering Group decvax!tarsa