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Try it Out: Casing the C Shell

I saved the following code to file switch_os on ~/Desktop

    echo "Please enter your favorite operating system, "
    echo -n "linux, macosx, windows, amigados or beos: "
    set os = $<

    switch ( $os )

    case linux:
        echo "Way cool, yoou like Linux."
        breaksw
    case macosx:
        echo "You like Roman numerals."
        breaksw
    case windows:
        echo "Time to check for a virus."
        breaksw
    case amigados:
        echo "AmigaDOS will never die."
        breaksw
    case beos:
        echo "Count yourself lucky."
        breaksw
    default
        echo "Why did you choose $os?"
    endsw

I then ran the code using csh switch_os in the Terminal on Mac OS X (10.4.2). I receive the correct response for each case but each was followed by:

    csh: breaksw: endsw not found.

Is this expected behavior with this OS?

bill

I'm using MacOS X 10.4.2 (Tiger) and this script ran fine without the error you saw under both Terminal and iTerm. If you had run this under bash, you would have received an error earlier in the script, so you must be using csh. Are you using Fink or DarwinPorts by chance? I'm looking for anything that could be diffferent between our systems.

-Eric