[nycbug-talk] what are your usefull hacks, the real simple ones

[Peter Wright]

> On 5/8/06, Peter Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>>
>> ok, this one is dumb - and more of a pet peeve thing.  but i've grown
>> fond
>> of defining your path's ala:
>>
>> # from ~/.cshrc
>> set path = ( ~/bin /bin /sbin\
>> /usr/{bin,sbin,X11R6/bin,local/bin,local/sbin,games} .)
>>
>> not sure why, but on most linux type os's i've used they do not seem to
>> define path's in this way by default...
>>
>
> It may have to do with which, or which version of, csh you are using.
> Tcsh has
> a lot of changes over csh and this may have something to do with it.
> Also it may
> have to do with the simple fact that the other way is simpler, no
> shell expansion
> to figure out.
>
hmm, i'll have to check that out.  i know this works ok with tcsh/csh on
both open and freebsd.  i'll be testing it out on IRIX when time permits. 
can't really hack my linux environment at the moment though...

-p



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