Re: Korn and csh variables issue

nishant80@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Is there a common way of defining a variable that will work in both
korn shell and C shell?

Well.... You could define them as environment variables, and THEN execute the shell.
for instance, this is done in /etc/profile, which is executed before the login shell.

I need to have a common way because I am using a separate file to
define some variables that will be used by multiple korn and csh
scripts.

I'd suggest you create two files

file.ksh
file.csh

and for ksh, execute
. file.ksh
for csh, execute
source file.csh

As another suggestion, you can create an alias or function. For
instance, in csh, you can use

alias setvar 'set \!:1 = \!:2'

and for ksh/bash you can define a function:

setvar() {
eval $1=$2
}

then the command

setvar a 123

would work for both.

But, IMHO, if you can do that, then you might as well define the
variables at the same time.

NOTE: This is not an environment variable. That would require the following modifications:

#csh
alias setvar 'setenv \!:1 \!:2'

#ksh
setvar() {
eval export $1=$2
}



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