C Shell Scripting/Setup
Setting up your Environment
[edit | edit source]The C shell executable file is called csh. Most Unix systems have this shell installed except if the system just has the essentials installed. C shell is not a POSIX shell so if the system has only one shell is would most likely be a Bourne shell. Easiest way to check if you have C shell is to run the which command and see if it returns the path to the csh file.
$ which csh /bin/csh
The result will most likely be /bin/csh which is the standard location. If the command doesn't print out a path the executable is not installed and you will have to download and installed the executable.
Figuring out the version of the C shell should also be done. If the output of this command indicates that your shell is an old version, upgrading to a newer version may save some headaches later.
Simply run the command with the --version option.
$ csh --version tcsh 6.14.00 (Astron) 2005-03-25 (i386-apple-darwin) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,color,filec
For example, Mac OS X 10.5.7 displays tcsh 6.14.00. It should not be surprising to find the tcsh executable masquerading as the older csh executable since its is backward compatible.
Linux
[edit | edit source]Linux has many different methods to install applications. One way is the apt-get command.
$ sudo apt-get install csh
Mac OS X
[edit | edit source]Mac OS X should always have csh installed. But you may want to get an editor such as TextMate to color the syntax.