On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:32:49AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > I have this simple question regarding the tcsh: > > in /bin/sh (Bourne shell) I can assign a value to an environment variable for > just one command, like this: > > VARIABLE=value <command> > > e.g. "DISPLAY=:0 xterm" or "CFLAGS=O2 make". > > Can this be done with tcsh as well? The only thing I can think of is this:
You need the env(1) command:
% env DISPLAY=:0 xterm
Syntax is just like the Bourne shell equivalent; just insert 'env' at
the beginning of the command line.
Cheers,
Matthew
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