On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 08:03 -0700, ss11223 wrote:
> On Jun 25, 9:40 am, michael <c...@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:
> > Hi, I have acshscript in which I'd like to do set up a list of vars
> > and then to chk each of these are set, something like the below.
> > However, I can't find the magic incantation that allows to to check
> > ${$Vars} eg if $InMetFiles is set on the first loop - suggestions
> > welcome!
> >
> > #!/bin/csh
> > foreach Vars (InMetFiles InTerFile OutDir)
> > echo Checking $Vars\.\.\.
> > if ( ${?Vars} == 0) then
> > echo $Vars not set \- aborting
> > exit 1
> > endif
> > end
> >
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>
> its ugly but I think this works
>
> #!/bin/csh
>
> foreach Vars (Var1 Var2 Var3)
> echo checking $Vars\.\.\.
> setenv temp '${'$Vars'}'
> setenv temp2 `eval echo 'X'$temp >&/dev/null`
> if ( "$status" != "0" ) then
> echo $Vars not set \- aborting
> exit 1
> endif
> end
>
it only works if csh is invoked without -e (stop on error)