[OS X TeX] csh and environment vars

[Martin Costabel]

Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> does anyone know why the C-Shell doesn't like a script file with the 
> following line
> 
> setenv TEXMF 
> '{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}' 
> 
> 
> to be sourced? The error message is
> 
> csh: setenv: Too many arguments.

Use \!\! instead of !!
The !!$ is expanded using history substitution and replaced by the last 
word from the previous command, even inside single quotes. Depending 
what your previous command was, this can have weird effects.

-- 
Martin

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