I want to maintain a filename across editing sessions (i access my
editor through csh shell scripts).  I have two choices

1) shell script writes filename to file, reads it later.  This requires
a shell command to read first word of a file into a variable - I don't
know how to do this - can you help?

2) shell script defines global variable as filename.  I don't know how
to do this either (the variable goes away when the script completes).

Any suggestions appreciated, please use email

thanks
/jeff  (jwins...@wireless.tellabs.com)

Public questions deserve public answers. Bourne shell script, as I
remember it, expand to your heart's content:
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        [ "$1" ] && {
                echo $1 >.vv
                vi $1
                exit
                }
        [ "$1" ] || vi `cat .vv`
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Now, how hard was that?
--
Kurt J. Lanza
k...@infor.com

Let's see:

flybane 99% echo '#\!/usr/bin/sh' > foo.sh
flybane 100% echo 'read name' >> foo.sh
flybane 101% echo 'echo $name' >> foo.sh
flybane 102% chmod +x foo.sh
flybane 103% set a = `foo.sh < foo.sh`
flybane 104% echo $a
#!/usr/bin/sh

Is that sort of what you had in mind?  See the man page for 'read'

David S.
davids
...     @fllybane.berkeley.edu

Am I missing something? Why this indirection?
How about this:

% echo filename >somewhere

% set a=`cat somewhere`

Sure 'a' is not just the first word after this, but that should be o.k.
in your case.

Stephen

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