eesnyder at sequana.com (Eric E. Snyder) writes:
>I am experiencing a bizarre behavior of t/csh when using
>gcg programs. On Solaris and SunOS, translate (for example)
>appears to break the standard "here doc" functionality
>of the shell. The idea is to feed input to a program that
>wants to take it interactively (ie that can't use command-
>line arguments).
>>eg:
>>translate << +
>>>file_name
>100
>200
>No
>Yes
>W
>+
>>Unfortunately, tranlate (and several others I have tried)
>is doing something weird, giving the error:
>>(jayhawker)[2:48pm]fasta>>translate << +
>Can't << within ()'s.
>>Anyone have any idea what is going on here?
The problem arises from the fact that "translate" is really an alias;
if you type "alias translate", you will see:
( set noglob; $GCGUTILDIR/tranlate !* )
You CAN make the redirection-trick work, by calling the program by its
full name:
$GCGUTILDIR/translate << +
etc.
+
This will work.
Jack
