Gerry Lawrence writes: > > There are OSes which have this set by default? > > I love Suse for just about everything but their screwup of tcsh is > unconscionable.
Is tcsh the default shell in Suse? > It may not be suse, it may be the tcsh group, I don't know. If so, then it appears that either Debian or Ubuntu remove it. > > Actually my attempt at seeing it in action failed: > > > > $ mkdir new > > $ cd new > > $ tcsh > > % touch 1 2 3 4 5 > > % ls > > 1 2 3 4 5 > > % setenv rmstar > > % rm * > > % ls > > % exit > > $ > > > > -- which is itself hateful. What did I miss? What I missed is that this is a shell variable, not an environment variable, so it needs setting with set, not setenv. I'm still claiming that as hateful, for forcing me to remember the difference. Smylers
