On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 03:31:12PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On 2022-07-02 14:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 01:18:08PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > I have one application that I compile which requires the csh shell. > > > > > > > comp@AbNormal:~$ csh > > > Bad : modifier in $ '/'. > > > AbNormal:~% > > > > > > I've never seen this before but the compilation process still worked. > > > > > > What's going on? > > > > Ask your academia comrades. Nobody outside of academia will know, > > because > > nobody else still uses csh. For anything. It's just bad. > > Quick Google search shows it is an issue with the syntax of defining > environment variables: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40968061/bad-modifier-in
That still requires some command to have been executed. Since Stephen didn't even run a command yet, that means he has to have created a bogus dot file (e.g. ~/.cshrc) containing the invalid csh command. One may wonder why the fact that "oh by the way I created a .cshrc file first, *then* ran csh, and here's what's in that file" was not shown, but I've learned not to expect any approximation of common sense.
