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TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) NAME tcsh - C shell with file name completion and command line editing SYNOPSIS tcsh [ -bcdefilmnqstvVxX ] [ argument ... ] DESCRIPTION Tcsh is an enhanced version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell csh(1). It behaves exactly like the C shell, except for the added utilities of: 1) Command line editing using Emacs-style commands. 2) Visual step up/down through the history list. 3) Terminal mode sanity checking and resetting. 4) Interactive command, file name and user name comple- tion. 5) File/directory/user list in the middle of a typed com- mand. 6) Spelling correction of command, file, and user names. 7) Lookup of command documentation in the middle of a typed command. 8) Enhanced history mechanism. 9) Automatic logout after long periods of idle time. 10) Automatic execution of a single command prior to printing each prompt. 11) Automatic periodic command execution. 12) A new syntax for the prompt, and the ability to set the prompt for "while" and "for" loops. 13) Time stamps in the history list. 14) An addition to the syntax of filenames to access entries in the directory stack, and the ability treat symbolic links in a sane way when changing direc- tories. 15) The ability to watch for logins and logouts by user or terminal on the machine. 16) A scheduled event list, which specifies commands which Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 1 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) are to be executed at given times. 17) A new builtin that does a subset of ls(1). 18) An addition to the file expression syntax for a char- acter not in a set of characters and the ability to negate a regular expression. 19) New automatically initialized environment variables HOST and HOSTTYPE. 20) Commands for debugging terminal capabilities. 21) Searching for the visual history mechanism. 22) A new builtin for the which(1) command. 23) Restarting a stopped editor with two keystrokes. 24) Status line support 25) Automatic execution of a command when the current working directory is changed. 26) Native Language System support. 27) Automatic process time reporting. 28) OS Dependent Builtin Support 29) Automatic window size adjustment 30) Input files 31) Additional/Undocumented Options For a description of standard C-shell features, see the csh manual page. 1. COMMAND LINE EDITING Commands that the user types in may be edited using the same control characters that Gnu Emacs or vi uses. Arrow and function key sequences are also allowed. Tcsh allows this by setting the terminal to `CBREAK' mode and reading the input one character at a time. There is a new shell command, bindkey, that allows the user to redefine what any key does, or find out what any or all of the keys do. Syntax: bindkey [ -a ] [ -s ] [ -v ] [ -e ] [ -d ] [ -l ] [ -r ] [ -- ] [ in-string [ out-string | command ]] Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 2 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) If no values are given all bindings are listed. If only in- string is given, bindings for the in-string is listed. Otherwise it binds the in-string to the given out-string or command. If out-string, this is treated as input to tcsh when in-string is typed. This may be used recursively to currently a level of 10 deep. There are two basic key maps: the normal and alternative one. The alternative is used by VI command mode. For multi- character input the basic key maps contains a sequence- lead-in for the first character in the input. Options: -a bind in-string in alternative key map. -s bind an out-string instead of a command -v bind for default VI-mode -e bind for default emacs-mode -d bind to compiled in default -l list functions available with short description -r remove the binding of in-string In strings control characters may be written as caret- <letter> and backslash ("\") is used to escape a character as follows: \a bell character \n line feed (new line) \b back space \t horizontal tab \v vertical tab \f form feed \r carriage return \e escape \nnn character code in octal In all other cases \ escapes the following character. Needed for escaping the special meaning of \ and ^. Delete is written as "^?" (caret-question mark). Tcsh always binds the arrow keys as defined by the termcap entry to: up arrow up-history down arrow down-history right arrow forward-char left arrow backward-char Also the vt100 sequences for arrow keys are always bound. The following is a list of the default emacs and vi bind- ings. Characters with the 8th bit set are written as M- <character>. Note however, that unlike with the old bind command (see below), the syntax M-<character> has no special Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 3 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) meaning to the bindkey command, and the bindings for the sequence escape+<character> and M-<character> as given below are handled separately (although the the default bindings are the same). The printable ascii characters not mentioned in the list are bound to the self-insert-command function, which just inserts the given character literally into the input line. The remaining characters are bound to the undefined-key function, which only causes a beep (unless nobeep is set, of course). EMACS bindings "^@" -> set-mark-command "^A" -> beginning-of-line "^B" -> backward-char "^C" -> tty-sigintr "^D" -> delete-char-or-list "^E" -> end-of-line "^F" -> forward-char "^G" -> is undefined "^H" -> backward-delete-char "^I" -> complete-word "^J" -> newline "^K" -> kill-line "^L" -> clear-screen "^M" -> newline "^N" -> down-history "^O" -> tty-flush-output "^P" -> up-history "^Q" -> tty-start-output "^R" -> redisplay "^S" -> tty-stop-output "^T" -> transpose-chars "^U" -> kill-whole-line "^V" -> quoted-insert "^W" -> kill-region "^X" -> sequence-lead-in "^Y" -> yank "^Z" -> tty-sigtsusp "^[" -> sequence-lead-in "^\" -> tty-sigquit "^]" -> tty-dsusp " " to "/" -> self-insert-command "0" to "9" -> digit ":" to "~" -> self-insert-command "^?" -> backward-delete-char EMACS Multi-character and 8 bit bindings "^[^D" or "M-^D" -> list-choices "^[^H" or "M-^H" -> backward-delete-word "^[^I" or "M-^I" -> complete-word Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 4 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) "^[^L" or "M-^L" -> clear-screen "^[^Z" or "M-^Z" -> run-fg-editor "^[^[" or "M-^[" -> complete-word "^[^_" or "M-^_" -> copy-prev-word "^[ " or "M- " -> expand-history "^[!" or "M-!" -> expand-history "^[$" or "M-$" -> spell-line "^[0" or "M-0" -> digit-argument "^[1" or "M-1" -> digit-argument "^[2" or "M-2" -> digit-argument "^[3" or "M-3" -> digit-argument "^[4" or "M-4" -> digit-argument "^[5" or "M-5" -> digit-argument "^[6" or "M-6" -> digit-argument "^[7" or "M-7" -> digit-argument "^[8" or "M-8" -> digit-argument "^[9" or "M-9" -> digit-argument "^[?" or "M-?" -> which-command "^[B" or "M-B" -> backward-word "^[C" or "M-C" -> capitalize-word "^[D" or "M-D" -> delete-word "^[F" or "M-F" -> forward-word "^[H" or "M-H" -> run-help "^[L" or "M-L" -> downcase-word "^[N" or "M-N" -> history-search-forward "^[P" or "M-P" -> history-search-backward "^[R" or "M-R" -> toggle-literal-history "^[S" or "M-S" -> spell-word "^[U" or "M-U" -> upcase-word "^[W" or "M-W" -> copy-region-as-kill "^[_" or "M-_" -> insert-last-word "^[b" or "M-b" -> backward-word "^[c" or "M-c" -> capitalize-word "^[d" or "M-d" -> delete-word "^[f" or "M-f" -> forward-word "^[h" or "M-h" -> run-help "^[l" or "M-l" -> downcase-word "^[n" or "M-n" -> history-search-forward "^[p" or "M-p" -> history-search-backward "^[r" or "M-r" -> toggle-literal-history "^[s" or "M-s" -> spell-word "^[u" or "M-u" -> upcase-word "^[w" or "M-w" -> copy-region-as-kill "^[^?" or "M-^?" -> backward-delete-word "^X^X" -> exchange-point-and-mark "^X*" -> expand-glob "^X$" -> expand-variables "^XG" -> list-glob "^Xg" -> list-glob Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 5 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) VI Insert Mode functions "^C" -> tty-sigintr "^D" -> list-or-eof "^H" -> backward-delete-char "^I" -> complete-word "^J" -> newline "^K" -> kill-line "^L" -> clear-screen "^M" -> newline "^N" -> is undefined "^O" -> tty-flush-output "^P" -> is undefined "^Q" -> tty-start-output "^R" -> redisplay "^S" -> tty-stop-output "^T" -> is undefined "^U" -> backward-kill-line "^V" -> quoted-insert "^W" -> backward-delete-word "^X" -> is undefined "^Y" -> tty-dsusp "^Z" -> tty-sigtsusp "^[" -> vi-cmd-mode "^\" -> tty-sigquit " " to "~" -> self-insert-command "^?" -> backward-delete-char VI Command Mode functions "^@" -> is undefined "^A" -> beginning-of-line "^B" -> is undefined "^C" -> tty-sigintr "^D" -> list-choices "^E" -> end-of-line "^F" -> is undefined "^G" -> list-glob "^H" -> backward-delete-char "^I" -> vi-cmd-mode-complete "^J" -> newline "^K" -> kill-line "^L" -> clear-screen "^M" -> newline "^N" -> down-history "^O" -> tty-flush-output "^P" -> up-history "^Q" -> tty-start-output "^R" -> redisplay "^S" -> tty-stop-output "^T" -> is undefined "^U" -> backward-kill-line Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 6 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) "^V" -> is undefined "^W" -> backward-delete-word "^X" -> expand-line "^[" -> sequence-lead-in "^\" -> tty-sigquit " " -> forward-char "!" -> expand-history "$" -> end-of-line "*" -> expand-glob "0" -> vi-zero "1" to "9" -> digit-argument "?" -> which-command "@" -> is undefined "A" -> vi-add-at-eol "B" -> backward-word "C" -> vi-chg-to-eol "D" -> kill-line "I" -> vi-insert-at-bol "J" -> history-search-forward "K" -> history-search-backward "O" -> sequence-lead-in "R" -> vi-replace-mode "S" -> vi-substitute-line "T" -> toggle-literal-history "V" -> expand-variables "W" -> forward-word "X" -> backward-delete-char "[" -> sequence-lead-in "\^" -> beginning-of-line "a" -> vi-add "b" -> backward-word "c" -> is undefined "d" -> delete-word "h" -> backward-char "i" -> vi-insert "j" -> down-history "k" -> up-history "l" -> forward-char "r" -> vi-replace-char "s" -> vi-substitute-char "t" -> toggle-literal-history "v" -> expand-variables "w" -> vi-beginning-of-next-word "x" -> delete-char "~" -> change-case "^?" -> backward-delete-char "M-?" -> run-help "M-[" -> sequence-lead-in "M-O" -> sequence-lead-in VI Multi-character bindings Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 7 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) "^[?" -> run-help There is also an older version of bindkey called bind, that allows the user to redefine what any key does, or find out what any or all of the keys do. This is retained for compa- tibility reasons. If given two arguments bind binds the function (first argu- ment) to the given key (second argument). The key may be: the direct character or a caret-<letter> combination, which is converted to control-<letter>; M-<letter> for an escaped character; or F-<string> for a function key. For the last of these, the function key prefix must be bound to the func- tion "sequence-lead-in" and the string specified to the bind command must not include this prefix. If given one argument bind takes the argument as the name for a key and tells what that key does. As a special case, the user can say bind emacs or bind vi to bind all the keys for Emacs or vi mode respectively. If given no arguments bind tells what all of the keys do. If you give bind the single argument of 'defaults', it resets each key to its default value (see the above list). 2. VISUAL HISTORY The keys ^P and ^N are used to step up and down the history list. If the user has typed in the following: > ls foo bar > echo mumble mumble > then enters ^P, the shell will place "echo mumble" into the editing buffer, and will put the cursor at the end of the line. If another ^P is entered, then the editing line will change to "ls". More ^Ps will make the bell ring, since there are no more lines in the history. ^N works the same way, except it steps down (forward in time). An easy way to re-do a command is to type ^P followed by Return. Also, pieces of previous commands can be assembled to make a new command. The commands that work on regions are especially useful for this. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 8 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) ^P and ^N actually only copy commands from out of the his- tory into the edit buffer; thus the user may step back into the history and then edit things, but those changes do not affect what is actually in tcsh 's history. Another way to recall (parts of) history commands is via the 'expand-history' function. A variation of the 'expand- history' function is called 'magic-space'. This function expands csh history, and always appends a space. Magic-space thus can be bound to <space>, to automatically expand csh history. Expand-history is normally bound to M-<space> and magic-space is not bound. 3. TTY MODE SANITY As part of the editor, tcsh does a check and reset of the terminal mode bits. If the speed has been changed, then tcsh will change to using that speed. Tcsh will also obey changes in the padding needed by the tty. Some changes to the command keys will be obeyed, however if a command key is unset, tcsh will reset it to what it was. Also, the shell will automatically turn off RAW and CBREAK modes, and will turn on the tty driver's output processing. 4. WORD COMPLETION In typing commands, it is no longer necessary to type a com- plete name, only a unique abbreviation is necessary. When you type a TAB to tcsh it will complete the name for you, echoing the full name on the terminal (and entering it into the edit buffer). If the prefix you typed matches no name, the terminal bell is rung, unless the variable nobeep is set. The name may be partially completed if the prefix matches several longer names. If this is the case, the name is extended up to the point of ambiguity, and the bell is rung. This works for file names, command names, shell vari- ables and the ~ user name convention. The variable fignore may be set to a list of suffixes to be disregarded during completion. Example Assume the current directory contained the files: DSC.TXT bin cmd lib memos DSC.NEW chaos cmtest mail netnews bench class dev mbox new The command: > gnumacs ch[TAB] would cause tcsh to complete the command with the file name chaos. If instead, the user had typed: Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 9 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) > gnumacs D[TAB] tcsh would have extended the name to DSC and rung the termi- nal bell, indicating partial completion. However, if fignore had previously been set to a list containing .NEW as one element, e.g. ( .o .NEW ), tcsh would have completed the `D' to DSC.TXT. File name completion works equally well when other direc- tories are addressed. Additionally, tcsh understands the C shell tilde (~) convention for home directories. Thus, > cd ~speech/data/fr[TAB] does what one might expect. This may also be used to expand login names only. Thus, > cd ~sy[TAB] expands to > cd ~synthesis Command names may also be completed, for example, > gnum[TAB] will expand to "gnumacs" (assuming that there are no other commands that begin with "gnum"). Shell and environment variables are recognized also and in addition they can be expanded: > set local=/usr/local > echo $lo[TAB] will expand to "$local/". Note that a slash is appended because the expanded variable points to a directory. Also: > set local=/usr/local > echo $local/[^D] bin/ etc/ lib/ man/ src/ will correctly list the contents of /usr/local. Shell and environment variables can also be expanded via the expand- variables function: > echo $local/[^X$] > echo /usr/local/ Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 10 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) Completion also works when the cursor is in the middle of the line, rather than just the end. All of the text after the cursor will be saved, the completion will work (possibly adding to the current name), and then the saved text will be restored in place, after the cursor. The behavior of the completion can be changed by the setting of several shell variables: Setting the recexact variable makes an exact command be expanded rather than just ringing the bell. For example, assume the current directory has two subdirectories called foo and food, then with recexact set the following could be done: > cd fo[TAB] to ... > cd foo[TAB] to ... > cd foo/ rather than beeping on the second TAB. If the autolist variable is set, invoking completion when several choices are possible will automatically list the choices, effectively merging the functionality described in the next section into the completion mechanism. The "noise level" can be controlled by the value that matchbeep is set to: With matchbeep=nomatch, completion will only beep if there are no matching names; with matchbeep=ambiguous, com- pletion will also beep if there are many possible matches; with matchbeep=notunique, completion will also beep when there is an exact match but there are other, longer, matches (see recexact). With matchbeep=never or set to any other value completion will never beep. If matchbeep is not set it defaults to ambiquous. If the autoexpand variable is set, the expand-history func- tion will be invoked automatically before the completion attempt, expanding normal csh history substitutions. For covert operation, the variable nobeep can be set; it will prevent the completion mechanism, as well as tcsh in general, from actually beeping. Finally, if the autocorrect variable is set, the spelling correction is attempted for any path components up to the completion point. 5. LISTING OF POSSIBLE NAMES At any point in typing a command, you may request "what names are available". Thus, when you have typed, perhaps: > cd ~speech/data/fritz/ Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 11 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) you may wish to know what files or subdirectories exist (in ~speech/data/fritz), without, of course, aborting the com- mand you are typing. Typing the character Control-D (^D), will list the names (files, in this case) available. The files are listed in multicolumn format, sorted column-wise. Directories are indicated with a trailing `/', executable files with a `*', symbolic links with a '@', sockets with a '=', FIFOs (named pipes) with a '|', character devices with a '%', and block devices with a '#'. Once printed, the com- mand is re-echoed for you to complete. Additionally, one may want to know which files match a pre- fix. If the user had typed: > cd ~speech/data/fr[^D] all files and subdirectories whose prefix was ``fr'' would be printed. Notice that the example before was simply a degenerate case of this with a null trailing file name. (The null string is a prefix of all strings.) Notice also, that a trailing slash is required to pass to a new directory for both file name completion and listing. The degenerate > ~[^D] will print a full list of login names on the current system. Note, however, that the degenerate > <Spaces>[^D] does not list all of the commands, but only beeps. Listing/expanding of words that match a name containing wildcard characters can be done via the list-glob/expand- glob function: > ls foo.c bar.c a.out > vi *.c[^Xg] foo.c bar.c > vi *.c[^X*] > vi foo.c bar.c Command Name Recognition Command name recognition and completion works in the same manner as file name recognition and completion above. The current value of the environment variable PATH is used in searching for the command. For example > newa[TAB] Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 12 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) might expand to > newaliases Also, > new[^D] would list all commands (along PATH) that begin with "new". Note that Control-D has three different effects on tcsh. On an empty line (one that contains nothing, not even spaces), ^D sends an EOF to tcsh just as it does for normal programs. When the cursor is in the middle of a line of text, ^D deletes the character that the cursor is under. Finally, a ^D at the end of a line of text lists the available names at that point. To get a list of available names when the cur- sor is in the middle of a line (or on an empty line), a Meta-Control-D should be typed (Escape followed by Control- D). 6. SPELLING CORRECTION If while typing a command, the user mistypes or misspells a file name, user name, or command name, tcsh can correct the spelling. When correcting a file name, each part of the path is individually checked and corrected. Spelling correction can be invoked in several different ways: The spell-word function, normally bound to M-s (and M-S), will attempt to correct the word immediately before the cur- sor. For example, suppose that the user has typed: > cd /uxr/spol/news[ESC s] Tcsh will check the path for spelling, correct the mistakes, and redraw the line as > cd /usr/spool/news leaving the cursor at the end of the line. Spelling correction of the entire command line (independent of where the cursor is) can be done with the spell-line function, normally bound to M-$ (Escape Dollar-sign). It will check each word independently, but in order to avoid e.g. command options, no correction is attempted on words whose first character is found in the string "!.\^-*%". Finally, automatic spelling correction will be done each time the Return key is hit, if the correct variable is set to an appropriate value: correct=cmd will cause the spelling of the command name only to be checked, while correct=all Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 13 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) causes checking of all words on the line, like the spell- line function. If any part of the command line is corrected, the user will be given a special prompt as defined by the prompt3 variable, followed by the corrected line, e.g. > lz /usr/bin CORRECT>ls /usr/bin (y/n)? Answering 'y' or <space> at the prompt will cause the corrected line to be used, anything else will leave the ori- ginal line unchanged. Automatic correction is not guaranteed to work the way the user intended. Command line parsing is done in a rudimen- tary fashion. It is mostly provided as an experimental feature. Suggestions and improvements are welcome. 7. DOCUMENTATION LOOKUP The editor function run-help (M-h) prints a help file on the current command (using the same definition of current as the completion routines use). This help file is found by searching the path list HPATH for files of the form foo.help, foo.1, foo.8, or foo.6 in that order (assuming that the current command is foo). The file is just printed, not paged in any way. This is because run-help is meant to be used to look up short help files, not manual pages (although it can do manual pages also). 8. ENHANCED HISTORY MECHANISM Tcsh will save the history list between login sessions. It does this by writing the current list to the file "~/.his- tory" on logout, and reading it in on login. For example, placing the line > set history=25 savehist=20 tells tcsh to save the last 25 commands on the history list, and to save the last 20 of them between logins. The "savehist" variable may be set up to the size of history, although it is an error to have savehist larger than his- tory. In addition to the above tcsh, keeps unparsed (literal) versions of the history if the variable histlit is set. Also the toggle-history function toggles between the parsed and literal version of the recalled history in the editor buffer. For example: > set histlit > echo !:s/foo/bar; ls Modifier failed. > ^P > echo !:s/foo/bar; ls Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 14 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) > unset histlit > echo !:s/foo/bar; ls Modifier failed. > ^P > echo unset histlit[M-r] > echo !:s/foo/bar; ls Tcsh also supports the history escape !#. This undocumented csh escape holds the words of the current line. This is use- ful in renaming commands: > mv foo bar!#:1 mv foo barfoo Care should be taken when using this history expansion in csh since there is no check for recursion. In tcsh up to 10 levels of recursion are allowed. Another difference between tcsh and csh history expansion, is the treatment of history arguments. In csh !3d expands to event 3 with the letter "d" appended to it. There is no way to repeat a command that begins with a number using the name of the command in the history escape. In tcsh only numeric arguments are treated as event numbers; therefore !3d is interpreted as: repeat the last command that started with the string "3d". To mimick the csh behavior !3\d can be used. 9. AUTOMATIC LOGOUT The automatic logout time is controlled by the variable autologout, the value of which is the number of minutes of inactivity will be allowed before automatically logging the user out. When that many minutes have been reached, the shell prints "autologout" and dies (without executing ~/.logout). The default for tcsh is to set autologout for 60 minutes on login shells, and when the user is root. To disable autologout (for instance in a window system), unset the shell variable autologout. 10. EXECUTION OF A COMMAND PRIOR TO EACH PROMPT Tcsh supports a special alias, precmd, which if set holds a command that will be executed before printing each prompt. For example, if the user has done > alias precmd date then the program date will be run just before the shell prompts for each command. There are no limitations on what precmd can be set to do, although discretion should be used. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 15 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) 11. PERIODIC COMMAND EXECUTION Tcsh is now capable of providing periodic command execution through the use of the shell variable tperiod and the alias periodic. When these items are set, the alias periodic will be executed every tperiod minutes. This provides a con- venient means for checking on common but infrequent changes, such as new messages. Example: > set tperiod = 30 > alias periodic checknews This will cause the checknews(1) program to be run every 30 minutes. Having the alias periodic set but with an unset tperiod (or a value of 0 for tperiod) will cause periodic to degenerate to another form of precmd. 12. NEW PROMPT FORMAT The format for the prompt shell variable has been changed to include many new things, such as the current time of day, current working directory, etc.. The new format uses "%<char>" to signal an expansion, much like printf(3S). The available sequences are: %d or %/ Current working directory. %~ cwd. If it starts with $HOME, that part is replaced by a ~. In addition if a directory name prefix matches a user's home directory, that part of the directory will be substituted with ~user. NOTE: The ~user substitution will only happen if the shell has performed a ~ expansion for that user name in this session. %c or %. Trailing component of cwd, may be followed by by a digit to get more than one component, if it starts with $HOME, that part is replaced with a ~. %C Trailing component of cwd, may be followed by a digit to get more than one component, no ~ substitution. %h, %!, ! Current history event number. %M The full machine hostname. %m The hostname up to the first ".". %S (%s) Start (stop) standout mode. %B (%b) Start (stop) boldfacing mode. (Only if tcsh was compiled to be eight bit clean.) %U (%u) Start (stop) underline mode. (Only if tcsh was compiled to be eight bit clean.) %t or %@ Current time of day, in 12-hour, am/pm format. %T Current time of day, in 24-hour format. (But see the ampm shell variable below.) \c `c' is parsed the same way as in bindkey. ^c `c' is parsed the same way as in bindkey. %% A single %. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 16 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) %n The user name, contents of $user. %w The date in <Mon> dd format. %W The date in mm/dd/yy format. %D The date in yy-mm-dd format. %l The line (tty) the user is logged on. %L clear from prompt to end of display or end of line. %# A `#' if tcsh is run as a root shell, a `>' if not. %{..%} Include string as a literal escape sequence. Note that the enclosed escape sequence, should only be used to change terminal attributes and should not move the cursor location. Also, this cannot be the last character in the prompt string. (Available only if tcsh was compiled to be eight bit clean.) %? return code of the last command executed just before the prompt. %R In prompt3 this is the corrected string; in prompt2 it is the status of the parser. The sequences for standout are often used to indicate that this is an enabled (running as root) shell. An example: > set prompt="%m [%h] %U[%@]%u [%/] you rang? " tut [37] [2:54pm] [/usr/accts/sys] you rang? _ In addition, there is a new variable, prompt2, which is used to prompt for the body of while and for loops (wherever nor- mal csh prompts with a question mark). The default for prompt2 is "%R? ": the status of the parser followed by a question mark. This alternate prompt is also used when the parser is waiting for more input; i.e. when the previous line ended in a \. The prompt3 variable is used when displaying the corrected command line when automatic spel- ling correction is in effect; it defaults to "CORRECT>%R (y|n)? ". 13. TIME-STAMPED HISTORY LIST The history list in tcsh now has a time-of-day stamp attached to each history list event. This time stamp is printed whenever the history command is executed. This allows the user to keep track of when the various events occurred. The time stamps are not maintained on the saved history list (also available in csh); thus, on logging back in, all the saved history events will be recorded with the login time as their time stamp. The time stamp printouts can be omitted from the history list by adding the -t switch to the history command. 14. DIRECTORY ACCESS Tcsh supports three new flags to control directory style Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 17 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) printing for cd, pushd, popd, and dirs: -n Print entries in new lines so that the screen width is not exceeded -l Don't print ~ but print the whole path -v Print the stack entries one in each line, preceeded by the stack number. Note that popd +n can be used to pop out stack entries of directories that do not exist any more. Tcsh will now allow the user to access all elements in the directory stack directly. The syntax "=<digit>" is recog- nized by tcsh as indicating a particular directory in the stack. (This works for the file/command name recognition as well.) This syntax is analogous to the ~ syntax for access to users' home directories. The stack is viewed as zero- based, i.e., =0 is the same as $cwd, which is the same as ".". As a special case, the string "=-" is recognized as indicating the last directory in the stack. Thus, > dirs -v 0 /usr/net/bin 1 /usr/spool/uucp 2 /usr/accts/sys > echo =2 /usr/accts/sys > ls -l =1/LOGFILE -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp 2594 Jan 19 09:09 /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE > echo =-/.cs* /usr/accts/sys/.cshrc > echo =4 Not that many dir stack entries. > Tcsh will complain if you ask for a directory stack item which does not exist. In the normal csh, saying "pushd +2" would rotate the entire stack around through 2 stack elements, placing the entry found there at the top of the stack. If, however, the new shell variable dextract is set, then issuing "pushd +n" will cause the nth directory stack element to be extracted from its current position, which will then be pushed onto the top of the stack. Example: > dirs ~ /usr/spool/uucp /usr/net/bin /sys/src > set dextract > pushd +2 Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 18 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) /usr/net/bin ~ /usr/spool/uucp /sys/src > unset dextract > pushd +2 /usr/spool/uucp /sys/src /usr/net/bin ~ The way symbolic links that point to directories are crossed is determined by two variables: chase_symlinks and ignore_symlinks. If chase_symlinks is set, then every time the directory changes, $cwd reflects the real directory name, and not the name through the link. A notable exception is the user's home directory, but that should be fixed. If ignore_symlinks is set, then directory change tries to find where you came from before you crossed the link to change the directory relatively. If you chdir through a symbolic link and then cd .., you will end .. relatively to where you were before you crossed the link and not .. relatively to where the symbolic link points. For example: > cd /tmp > mkdir from from/src to > ln -s ../from/src to/dst > echo $cwd /tmp > unset ignore_symlinks; unset chase_symlinks > cd to/dst; echo $cwd /tmp/to/dst > cd .. /tmp/from > unset ignore_symlinks; set chase_symlinks > cd /tmp/to/dst; echo $cwd /tmp/from/src > cd ..; echo $cwd /tmp/from > set ignore_symlinks; unset chase_symlinks > cd /tmp/to/dst; echo $cwd /tmp/to/dst > cd ..; echo $pwd /tmp/to In case you are wondering what happens when you set both, ignore_symlinks will override chase_symlinks. 15. WATCHING FOR LOGINS AND LOGOUTS Tcsh has a mechanism so that the user can watch for login and logout activity of any user or terminal in the system. This is accomplished using the new special shell variable watch, which contains login/terminal name pairs to be Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 19 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) checked for activity. For example: > set watch=(sys ttyjd root console) This setting will allow the user to check on when the user "sys" logs in on /dev/ttyjd. Similarly, it will inform the user of root's activity on the console. In order to be more general, the word "any" may be substituted for either a user's or a terminal's name, thus allowing > set watch=(brad any any ttyh0) which will check for user "brad" logging in or out of the system on any terminal, as well as anyone logging in to /dev/ttyh0. Naturally, the completely general case > set watch=(any any) allows the user to check on any and all login/logout activity in the the system. By default, the interval between checks of users on the sys- tem is 10 minutes; this can be changed by making the first element of watch a number of minutes which should be used instead, as in > set watch=(40 any any) which will check for any users logging in or out every 40 minutes. There is also a new command, log, which is used to cause tcsh to inform the user of all users/terminals affected by watch whether they have been announced before or not. This is useful if a user has been on for some time and cannot remember if a particular person/terminal is online right now or not. Log will reset all indication of previous announce- ment and give the user the login list all over again, as well as printing the current value of watch. The first time that watch is set at tcsh startup, all affected users and terminals will be printed as though those users/terminals had just logged on. This may appear to be a bug, but is generally considered a feature, since it allows the user to see who is on when he first logs in. The format of the printouts can be tailored via setting of the variable who. The following sequences are available for the format specification: %n The name of the user that logged in/out. %a The observed action, i.e. "logged on", Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 20 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) "logged off", or "replaced <olduser> on". %l The line (tty) the user is logged on. %S (%s) Start (stop) standout mode. %B (%b) Start (stop) boldfacing mode. (Only if tcsh was compiled to be eight bit clean) %U (%u) Start (stop) underline mode. (Only if tcsh was compiled to be eight bit clean) %M The full hostname of the remote host ("local" if non-remote). %m The hostname up to the first ".". If only the ip address is available or the utmp field contains the name of an x-windows display, the whole name is printed. %t or %@ The time, in 12-hour, am/pm format (logout time is approximated if unavailable). %T The time, in 24-hour format. (but see the "ampm" shell variable below). %w The date in <Mon> dd format. %W The date in mm/dd/yy format. %D The date in yy-mm-dd format. The %M and %m sequences are only available on systems that store the remote hostname in /var/run/utmp. If who is not set, the format defaults to "%n has %a %l from %m.", or "%n has %a %l." on systems that don't store the hostname. 16. TIMED EVENT LIST Tcsh now supports a scheduled-event list through the use of the command sched. This command gives the user a mechanism by which to arrange for other commands to be executed at given times. An event is added to the scheduled-event list by saying > sched [+]hh:mm <command> as in > sched 11:00 echo It\'s eleven o\'clock. This will make an entry in the list at 11am for the echo command to be run with the given arguments. The time may be specified in either absolute or relative time, and absolute times may have a morning/afternoon specification as well, using "am" or "pm." For example, > sched +2:15 /usr/sbin/uucico -r1 -sother > sched 5pm set prompt='[%h] It\'s after 5; go home: >' > sched +3am echo This syntax doesn\'t work. Relative time inconsistent with am/pm. > Note that tcsh will complain if you try to make faulty time Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 21 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) specifications. Printing the current time-event list is accomplished by giv- ing the sched command with no arguments: > sched 1 Wed Apr 4 15:42 /usr/sbin/uucico -r1 -sother 2 Wed Apr 4 17:00 set prompt=[%h] It's after 5; go home: > > There is also a mechanism by which the user can remove an item from the list: > sched --3 Usage for delete: sched -<item#>. > sched -3 Not that many scheduled events. > sched -2 > sched 1 Wed Apr 4 15:42 /usr/sbin/uucico -r1 -sother > All commands specified on the scheduled-event list will be executed just prior to printing the first prompt immediately following the time when the command is to be run. Hence, it is possible to miss the exact time when the command is to be run, but tcsh will definitely get around to all commands which are overdue at its next prompt. Scheduled-event list items which come due while tcsh is waiting for user input will be executed immediately. In no case, however, will normal operation of already-running commands be interrupted so that a scheduled-event list element may be run. This mechanism is similar to, but not the same as, the at(1) command on some Unix systems. Its major disadvantage is that it does not necessarily run a command at exactly the specified time (but only if another command is already being run). Its major advantage is that commands which run directly from tcsh, as sched commands are, have access to shell variables and other structures. This provides a mechanism for changing one's working environment based on the time of day. 17. BUILTIN FOR ls -F There is a new builtin command called ls-F which does the same thing as the command "ls -aF" if the shell variable showdots has been set, and acts like "ls -F" otherwise. Ls-F works like ls, only it is generally faster. If other switches are passed to ls-F, then the normal ls is executed. Aliasing ls to ls-F provides a fast alternative way of list- ing files. Note that on non BSD machines, where ls -C is not the default, ls-F, behaves like ls -CF. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 22 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) ls-F appends the following characters depending on the file type: = File is an AF_UNIX domain socket. [if system supports sockets] | File is a named pipe (fifo) [if system supports named pipes] % File is a character device # File is a block device / File is a directory * File is executable + File is a hidden directory [aix] or context dependent [hpux] : File is network special [hpux] On systems that support symbolic links the variable list- links controls the way symbolic links are identified. If listlinks is not set then the character '@' is appended to the file. If listlinks is set then the following characters are appended to the filename depending on the type of file the symbolic links points to: @ File is a symbolic link pointing to a non-directory > File is a symbolic link pointing to a directory & File is a symbolic link pointing to nowhere While setting listlinks can be helpful while navigating around the filesystem, it slows down ls-F and it causes mounting of filesystems if the symbolic links point to an NFS automounted partition. 18. GLOBBING SYNTAX ADDITIONS The syntax for any character in a range (for example ".[a- z]*") has been extended so as to conform with standard Unix regular expression syntax (see ed(1)). Specifically, after an open bracket ("["), if the first character is a caret ("^") then the character matched will be any not in the range specified. For example: > cd ~ > echo .[a-z]* .cshrc .emacs .login .logout .menuwmrc > echo .[^.]* .Xdefaults .Xinit .cshrc .emacs .login .logout .menuwmrc > Note that the second form includes .Xdefaults and .Xinit because 'X' (and all the lower case letters) are outside of the range of a single '.'. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 23 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) Also the ability to negate a regular expression has been added: > echo * foo foobar bar barfoo > echo ^foo* bar barfoo Note that this does not work correctly if the expression does not have any wildcard characters (?*[]) or if the expression has braces {}. 19. NEW ENVIRONMENT AND SHELL VARIABLES On startup, tcsh now automatically initializes the environ- ment variable HOST to the name of the machine that it is running on. It does this by doing a gethostname(2) system call, and setting HOST to the result. Tcsh also initializes the environment variable HOSTTYPE to a symbolic name for the type of computer that it is running on. This is useful when sharing a single physical directory between several types of machines (running NFS, for instance). For example, if the following is in .login: set path = (~/bin.$HOSTTYPE /usr/ucb /bin /usr/bin /usr/games .) and the user has directories named "bin.machine" (where machine is a name from the above list), then the user can have the same programs compiled for different machines in the appropriate "bin.machine" directories and tcsh will run the binary for the correct machine. The current possible values are: aix370 an IBM 370, running aix alliant an Alliant FX series apollo an Apollo running DomainOS att3b15 an AT&T 3b15 att3b20 an AT&T 3b20 att3b2 an AT&T 3b2 att3b5 an AT&T 3b5 balance a Sequent Balance (32000 based) butterfly a BBN Computer Butterfly 1000 convex a Convex decstation a DecStation XXXX gould-np1 a Gould NP1 hp300 an HP 9000, series 300, running mtXinu hp800 an HP 9000, series 800, running mtXinu hp9000s300 an HP 9000, series 300, running hpux hp9000s700 an HP 9000, series 700, running hpux hp9000s800 an HP 9000, series 800, running hpux Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 24 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) hp an HP, running hpux i386-mach an Intel 386, running mach iris4d a Silicon Graphics Iris 4D m88k an mc88000 CPU machine mac2 an Apple Computer Macintosh II, running AUX masscomp a Concurrent (Masscomp), running RTU mips another mips CPU multimax an Encore Computer Corp. Multimax (32000 based) next a NeXT computer news a Sony NEWS 800 or 1700 workstation news_mips a NeWS machine with mips CPU ns32000 an NS32000 CPU machine pfa50 a PFU/Fujitsu A-xx computer ps2 an IBM PS/2, running aix ptx a Sequent Symmetry running DYNIX/ptx (386/486 based) pyramid a Pyramid Technology computer (of any flavor) rs6000 an IBM RS6000, running aix rt an IBM PC/RT, running BSD (AOS 4.3) or mach rtpc an IBM PC/RT, running aix sun2 a Sun Microsystems series 2 workstation (68010 based) sun386i a Sun Microsystems 386i workstation (386 based) sun3 a Sun Microsystems series 3 workstation (68020 based) sun4 a Sun Microsystems series 4 workstation (SPARC based) sun a Sun workstation of none of the above types symmetry a Sequent Symmetry running DYNIX 3 (386/486 based) titan an Stardent Titan vax a Digital Equipment Corp. Vax (of any flavor) (The names of the machines are usually trade marks of the corresponding companies.) Tcsh also initializes the shell variables uid and gid to the value of the current real user ID/GID. This is useful for telling what user/group the shell is running as. Under Domain/OS tcsh will also set oid indicating the current real organization id. 20. COMMANDS FOR DEBUGGING Only two such commands are available at this point, both concerned with testing termcap entries. telltc tells you, politely, what tcsh thinks of your termi- nal, and settc `cap' `value' tells tcsh to believe that the termcap capability `cap' ( as defined in termcap(5) ) has the value `value'. No checking for sanity is performed, so beware of improper use. 21. SEARCHING FOR THE VISUAL HISTORY Two new editor functions have been added: history-search- backward, bound to M-p (and M-P), and history-search- forward, bound to M-n (and M-N). Each of these search back- ward (or forward) through the history list for previous (next) occurrence of the first word in the input buffer as a Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 25 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) command. That is, if the user types: > echo foo foo > ls filea fileb > echo bar bar > and then types "echo<ESC>p", the shell will place "echo bar" in the editing buffer. If another M-p was entered, the editing buffer would change to "echo foo". This capability is compatible with the plain visual history; if the user were to then enter ^P the editing buffer would be changed to "ls". The pattern used to search through the history is defined by the characters from the beginning of the line up to the current cursor position and may contain a shell glob- bing pattern. Successive history searches use the same pat- tern. 22. BUILTIN WHICH(1) COMMAND There is now a builtin version of the which(1) command. The builtin version is just like the original, except that it correctly reports aliases peculiar to this tcsh, and builtin commands. The only other difference is that the builtin runs somewhere between 10 and 100 times faster. There is also a key-function interface to this command: the which- command function (normally bound to M-?), can be used any- where on the command line, and will in effect do a 'which' on the command name. 23. RESTARTING A STOPPED EDITOR There is another new editor function: run-fg-editor, which is bound to M-^Z. When typed, it saves away the current input buffer, and looks for a stopped job with a name equal to the file name part (last element) of either the EDITOR or VISUAL environment variables (if not defined, the default names are "ed" and "vi" respectively). If such a job is found, then it is restarted as if "fg %name" had been typed. This is used to toggle back and forth between an editor and the shell easily. Some people bind this function to ^Z so they can do this even more easily. 24. STATUS LINE SUPPORT Tcsh has a new builtin called echotc that allows the user to access the terminal capabilities from the command line, similar to the system V tput(1). > echotc home Places the cursor at the home position and Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 26 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) > echotc cm 3 10 places the cursor at column 3 row 10. This command replaces the el and sl variables that used contain the escape sequences to begin and end status line changes. The command: > echo $sl this is a test $el is replaced by: > echotc ts 0; echo "this is a test"; echotc fs In addition echotc understands the arguments baud, lines, cols, meta, and tabs And prints the baud rate, the number of lines and columns, and "yes" or "no" depending if the termi- nal has tabs or a meta key. This can be useful in determin- ing how terse the output of commands will be depending on the baud rate, or setting limits to commands like history to the highest number so that the terminal does not scroll: > set history=`echotc lines` > @ history-- Note: Termcap strings may contain wildcard characters, and echoing them will not work correctly. The suggested method of setting shell variables to terminal capability strings is using double quotes, as in the following example that places the date in the status line: > set tosl="`echotc ts 0`" > set frsl="`echotc fs`" > echo -n "$tosl";date; echo -n "$frsl" Echotc accepts two flags. The flag -v enables verbose mes- sages and the flag -s ignores any errors and returns the empty string if the capability is not found. 25. EXECUTION OF A COMMAND AFTER CHANGING THE CURRENT WORKING DIRECTORY Tcsh now supports a special alias, cwdcmd, which if set holds a command that will be executed after changing the value of $cwd. For example, if the user is running on an X window system xterm, and has done > alias cwdcmd 'echo -n ^[]2 $hostname $cwd ^G' then the shell will change the title of the running xterm to be the name of the host, a colon, and the full current work- ing directory. Note that if a user defines cwdcmd to con- tain a cd, pushd, or popd, command, an infinite loop may result. In this case, it is the author's opinion that said Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 27 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) user will get what he deserves. 26. NATIVE LANGUAGE SYSTEM Tcsh is eight bit clean (if so compiled, see the description of the version shell variable below), and will thus support character sets needing this capability. The tcsh support for NLS differs depending on whether it was compiled to use the system's NLS (again, see the version variable) or not. In either case, the default for character classification (i.e. which characters are printable etc) and sorting is 7- bit ascii, and any setting or unsetting of the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variables will cause a check for possi- ble changes in these respects. When using the system's NLS, the setlocale C library func- tion will be called to determine appropriate character clas- sification and sorting - this function will typically exam- ine the LANG and LC_CTYPE variables for this purpose (refer to the system documentation for further details). Other- wise, NLS will be simulated, by assuming that the ISO 8859-1 character set is used whenever either of the LANG and LC_CTYPE variables are set, regardless of their values. Sorting is not affected for the simulated NLS. In addition, with both real and simulated NLS, all printable characters in the range \200-\377, i.e. those that have M- <char> bindings, are automatically rebound to self-insert- command (the corresponding binding for the escape+<char> sequence, if any, is left alone). This automatic rebinding is inhibited if the NOREBIND environment variable is set - this may be useful for the simulated NLS, or a primitive real NLS which assumes full ISO 8859-1 (otherwise all M- <char> bindings in the range \240-\377 will effectively be undone in these cases). Explicitly rebinding the relevant keys, using bindkey, is of course still possible. Unknown characters (i.e. those that are neither printable nor control characters) will be printed using the \nnn for- mat. If the tty is not in 8 bit mode, other 8 bit charac- ters will be printed by converting them to ascii and using standout mode. Tcsh will never change the 7/8 bit mode of the tty, and will track user-initiated settings for this - i.e. it may be necessary for NLS users (or, for that matter, those that want to use a Meta key) to explicitly set the tty in 8 bit mode through the appropriate stty(1) command in e.g. the .login file. 27. AUTOMATIC PROCESS TIME REPORTING Automatic process time reporting is a feature that exists in csh, but it is usually not documented. In addition tcsh pro- vides a slightly enriched syntax. Process time reports are controlled via the time shell variable. The first word of Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 28 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) the time variable indicates the minimum number of CPU seconds the process has to consume before a time report is produced. The optional second word controls the format of the report. The following sequences are available for the format specification: %U The time the process spent in user mode in cpu seconds. %S The time the process spent in kernel mode in cpu seconds. %E The elapsed time in seconds. %P The CPU percentage computed as (%U + %S) / %E. The following sequences are supported only in systems that have the BSD resource limit functions. %W Number of times the process was swapped. %X The average amount in (shared) text space used in Kbytes. %D The average amount in (unshared) data/stack space used in Kbytes. %K The total space used (%X + %D) in Kbytes. %M The maximum memory the process had in use at any time in Kbytes. %F The number of major page faults (page needed to be brought from disk). %R The number of minor page faults. %I The number of input operations. %O The number of output operations. %r The number of socket messages received. %s The number of socket messages sent. %k The number of signals received. %w Number of voluntary context switches (waits). %c Number of involuntary context switches. The default time format is "%Uu %Ss %E %P %X+%Dk %I+%Oio %Fpf+%Ww" for systems that support resource usage reporting and "%Uu %Ss %E %P" for systems that do not. For Sequent's DYNIX/ptx %X, %D, %K, %r and %s are not sup- ported. However, the following additional sequences are available. %Y The number of system calls performed. %Z The number of pages which are zero-filled on demand. %i The number of times a process' resident set size was increased by the kernel. %d The number of times a process' resident set size was decreased by the kernel. %l The number of read system calls performed. %m The number of write system calls performed. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 29 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) %p the number of reads from raw disk devices. %q the number of writes to raw disk devices. The default time format for Sequent's DYNIX/ptx is "%Uu %Ss $E %P %I+%Oio %Fpf+%Ww". Also note that the CPU percentage can be higher than 100% on multi-processors. 28. OS/DEPENDENT BUILTIN SUPPORT TRANSPARENT COMPUTING FACILITY On systems that support TCF (aix-ibm370, aix-ps2) the fol- lowing builtins have been added: getspath Print the current system execution path. setspath LOCAL|<site>|<cpu> ... Set the current execution path. getxvers Print the current experimental version prefix. setxvers [<string>] If the optional string is ommited, any experimen- tal version prefix is removed. Otherwise the experimental version prefix is set to string. migrate [-<site>] <pid>|%<jobid> ... migrate -<site> The first form migrates the process or job to the site specified or the default site determined by the system path. The second form, is equivalent to 'migrate -<site> $$', i.e. migrates the current process to the site specified. Note: migrating tcsh itself can cause unexpected behavior, since the shell does not like to lose its tty. In addition, jobs will print the site the job is executing. Domain/OS Support inlib <shared-library> ... Inlib adds shared libraries to the current enviroment. There is no way to remove them... rootnode //<nodename> Change the name of the current rootnode. From now on, / will resolve to //<rootnode> ver [<systype>] [<command>] Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 30 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) Without arguments, print $SYSTYPE; with the <systype> provided, set SYSTYPE to the one provided. Valid sys- types are bsd4.3 and sys5.3. If a <command> is argument is given, then <command> is executed under the <sys- type> specified. Mach setpath <path-spec> ... XXX: What does it do? Masscomp/RTU universe <universe-spec> ... Sets the current universe to the specified parameter. Convex/OS warp [<universe-spec>] ... Without arguments prints the current value of the universe. With a universe argument it sets the current universe to the value of the argument. 29. WINDOW SIZE TRACKING On systems that support SIGWINCH or SIGWINDOW, tcsh adapts to window resizing automatically and adjusts the environment variables LINES and COLUMNS if set. Also if the environment variable TERMCAP contains li#, and co# fields, these will be adjusted also to reflect the new window size. 30. INPUT FILES On startup tcsh will try to source /etc/csh.cshrc and then /etc/csh.login if the shell is a login shell. Then it will try to source $HOME/.tcshrc and then $HOME/.cshrc if $HOME/.tcshrc is not found. Then it will source $HOME/.login if the shell is a login shell. On exit tcsh will source first /etc/csh.logout and then $HOME/.logout if the shell was a login shell. Note: On convexos the names of the system default files are /etc/cshrc , /etc/login and /etc/logout respectively and on irix or A/UX only the file /etc/cshrc is executed if the shell is a login shell. 31. COMMAND LINE OPTIONS This section describes options that are either undocumented in csh (*) or present only in tcsh. (+) Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 31 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) -d Load ~/.cshdirs (If tcsh was compiled with CSHDIRS enabled)(+) -l Make tcsh behave like a login shell. (+) -m Allow reading of a .cshrc that does not belong to the effective user. Newer versions of su(1) can pass that to the shell. (some versions of csh have it) (+*) -q Make the shell accept SIGQUIT, and behave when it is used under a debugger. Job control is disabled. (*) FYI This shell uses cbreak mode but takes typed-ahead characters anyway. You can still use stty(1) to set some of the modes of your terminal (but not bindings). This shell will restore your tty to a sane mode if it appears to return from some command in raw, cbreak, or noe- cho mode. ENVIRONMENT HPATH -- path to look for command documentation LANG -- used to give preferred character environment (see NLS) LC_CTYPE -- used to change only ctype character handling (see NLS) NOREBIND -- inhibits rebinding of printable characters to self-insert-command PATH -- path to look for command execution SHLVL -- current shell level nesting TERM -- used to tell how to handle the terminal LINES -- Number of lines in terminal (see WINDOW SIZE) COLUMNS -- Number of columns in terminal (see WINDOW SIZE) TERMCAP -- Terminal capability string (see WINDOW SIZE) SYSTYPE -- The current system type (Domain OS only) NEW SHELL VARIABLES addsuffix add a / for directories, and a space for normal files when complete matches a name exactly. If unset don't add anything extra. ampm show all times in 12 hour, AM/PM format. autocorrect Correct mis-spelled path components automatically before attempting completion. autoexpand invoke the expand-history function automatically on completion. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 32 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) autolist list possibilities on an ambiguous completion. autologout number of minutes of inactivity before automatic logout. chase_symlinks always resolve symbolic links to real names on cd, etc. correct automatically try to correct the spelling of com- mands. Must be set to either correct=cmd, only command name will be corrected, or correct=all, the whole line will be corrected. dextract extract a directory on pushd rather than rotating. edit use the input editor, set by default. fignore list of file name suffixes (e.g. .o, ~) to ignore during complete. gid the current real group id. histlit If set, history lines in the editor will be shown with its literal value (that is the line as it was input) instead of the shells lexical version. The current history line can be toggled between literal and lexical with the toggle-literal- history function. History lines saved at shell exit are also saved as this variable indicates. ignore_symlinks don't resolve symbolic links to real names on cd, etc. listjobs list all jobs when suspending. set listjobs=long, produces long format. listlinks Resolve symbolic links when listing files so that the correct filetype is shown. listmax maximum number of items to list without asking first. matchbeep control beeping on completion. With matchbeep=nomatch, completion only beeps when there is no match, with matchbeep=ambiguous, beeps also when there are multiple matches, with matchbeep=notunique, beeps when there is one exact and other longer matches, with matchbeep=never, it never beeps. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 33 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) nobeep Disables beeping completely. oid The organization id number (Domain OS only). printexitvalue if an interactive program exits non-zero, print the exit value. prompt the string to prompt with. prompt2 the string to prompt for while and for loops with. prompt3 the string to prompt with when automatic spelling correction has corrected a command line. pushdtohome make pushd with no args do a "pushd ~" (like cd does). pushdsilent do not print the dir stack on every pushd and popd. recexact recognize exact matches even if they are ambigu- ous. recognize_only_executables list choices of commands only displays files in the path that are executable (slow). rmstar Prompt the user before execution of `rm *'. savehist number of history items to save between login ses- sions. shlvl Integer value indicating the number of nested shells. showdots show hidden files in list and complete operations. tcsh Contains the current version of the shell as R.VV.PP. The R indicates the major release number, the VV the current version and the PP the patchlevel. term the terminal type; see above. tperiod periodic command wait period (in minutes). tty The name of the tty, or empty if not attached to one. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 34 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) uid the current real user ID. version the version ID stamp for this tcsh. It contains, the origin of this version of tcsh, the date this version was released and a string containing a comma separated list of the compile time options enabled: 8b 7b If tcsh was compiled to be eight bit clean or not. The default is 8b. nls Set if tcsh uses the system's NLS, should be the default for systems that have NLS. lf Set if tcsh should execute .login before .cshrc on login shells. Default is not set. dl Set if tcsh should put . last on the path for security. Default is set. vi Set if tcsh's default editor is vi. Default is unset (emacs) dtr Set if tcsh should drop dtr on login shells when exiting. Default is unset. bye Set if tcsh should accept bye in addition to logout, and rename log to watchlog. Default is unset. al Set if tcsh should determine if autologout should be enabled. The default is set. dir Set if tcsh should save and restore the directory stack. kan Set if tcsh is compiled for Kanji. (ignore the iso character set.) Default is unset. sm Set if tcsh was compiled to use the system's malloc. In addition to the above strings, administrators can enter local strings to indicate differences in the local version. visiblebell use the visible bell (screen flash) rather than audible bell. watch list of events to watch. who format string for the printouts generated when watch is set. wordchars list of nonalphanumeric characters considered part of a word for the purpose of the forward-word, backward-word etc functions -- defaults to "*?_- .[]~=". NEW SPECIAL ALIASES cwdcmd the command is run after every change of working directory. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 35 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) periodic the command to be run every tperiod minutes. precmd the command to be run prior to printing each prompt. SEE ALSO csh(1), chsh(1), termcap(5) BUGS The screen update for lines longer than the screen width is very poor if the terminal cannot move the cursor up (i.e. terminal type "dumb"). I am certain that there are bugs. Bugs (preferably with fixes) should be sent to Christos Zoulas (christos@ee.cornell.edu). VERSION This man page documents tcsh 6.00.00 (Cornell) 07/04/91. AUTHORS Ken Greer, HP Labs, 1981 Wrote the command completion. Mike Ellis, Fairchild, 1983 Added command name recognition/completion. Paul Placeway, Ohio State CIS dept., 1983 Added the command line editor. Rayan Zachariassen, University of Toronto, 1984 Added the builtin which feature to the editor, and the code for ls-F . Also numerous bug fixes, modifications, and per- formance enhancements. Chris Kingsley, Caltech Wrote the fast storage allocator routines (nmalloc.c). Karl Kleinpaste, CCI 1983-4 Added special aliases, directory stack extraction stuff, login/logout watch, and scheduled events. Also came up with the idea of the new prompt format. Paul Placeway, Ohio State CIS dept., 1987 Re-wrote the editor, cleaned up other code, and added the prompt routines, added to the syntax for file name expres- sions, and sped up the shell some. Chris Grevstad, TRW, 1987 Ported the 4.3 csh sources to tcsh. Christos S. Zoulas, Cornell U. EE dept., 1987-90 Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 36 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) ported tcsh to HPUX, and System V rel. 2 and 3 and wrote a SysV version of getwd.c. Added SHORT_STRINGS support. James J Dempsey, BBN, 1988, and Paul Placeway, OSU, 1988 Re-ported tcsh to A/UX. BUGFIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS Eric Schnoebelen, Convex, 1990 Convex support, lots of csh bug fixes, save and restore of directory stack. Jaap Vermeulen, Sequent, 1990-91 Vi mode fixes, expand-line, window change fixes, ported to symmetry machines. Ron Flax, Apple, 1990 Ported again to A/UX 2.0 Dan Oscarsson, LTH Sweden, 1990 NLS support and simulated for non NLS sites. Correction of file names also handles the case when the / is replaced by another character. The editor does not switch into cbreak mode unless needed. The shell will not use character attri- butes when output is not to a tty. Johan Widen, SICS Sweden, 1990 Shell level variable, mach support, correct-line, 8-bit printing. Matthew T. Day, Sanyo/ICON, 1990 Added POSIX termio support; Fixed limit stuff for SysV. Hans J. Albertsson (Sun Sweden) Added the ampm variable handling, DING!, and the settc and telltc builtins. Michael Bloom Fixed some of the interrupt handling. Michael Fine, Digital Equipment Corp added the extended key support. Daniel Long, NNSC, 1988 Added the wordchars variable. George Hartzell, MCD Biology, University of Colorado- Boulder, 1988 Fixed the always reseting to DEL bug. Patrick Wolfe, Kuck and Associates, Inc., 1988 Cleaned up VI mode and wrote the new editor description (in Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 37 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) section 1). Jak Kirman, 1988 Fixed the SunOS 4 giant stack allocation bug. Bruce Robertson, Tektronix, 1989 Fixed setting erase and kill (again). David C Lawrence, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1989 Added "autolist" variable and code to list possibilities on ambiguous completion. Martin Boyer, Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, 1991. Modified "autolist" variable and code to give options on beeping behavior. Modified the history search to search for the whole string from the beginning of the line to the cur- sor. Alec Wolman, DEC, 1989 Added code to allow newlines in the prompt. Matt Landau, BBN, 1989 Fixed YP bugs on Suns, added .tcshrc stuff. Ray Moody, Purdue Physics, 1989 Added the code to do magic spacebar history expansion. Mordechai ????, Intel, 1989 Re-arranged the printprompt() routine to use a switch(*cp) (rather than a bunch of ifs), and added a few things to it. Josh Siegel, dspo.gov, 1989 Fixed "fg-editor" and added the status line shell variables "sl" and "el". Karl Berry, UMB, 1989 Fixed a bug involving environ (in sh.func.c) on NeXT comput- ers. Michael Greim, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, W-Germany, Fixed the nested backquote bug (yes, you can do it; think about aliases) in 4.2 csh. This fix was posted to comp.bugs.4bsd. Kazuhiro Honda, Department of Computer Science, Keio Univer- sity, 1989 Added the code for automatic spelling correction, the prompt3 stuff (the autocorrect prompt), and HOSTTYPE symbols for the Sony NEWS. Paul Placeway, BBN, 1990 Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 38 TCSH(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual TCSH(1) Fixed character redrawing code insert bugs, and made redraw- ing code handle multiple character movement, insert, and delete (if it exists). Fixed setting of SHELL. Per Hedeland, Ellemtel, Sweden, 1990 Various bugfixes and improvements, e.g. in history expan- sion, autolist, added autoexpand, updated the manual. THANKS TO A special thanks to: Bryan Dunlap, Clayton Elwell, Karl Kleinpaste, Bob Manson, Steve Romig, Diana Smetters, Bob Sutterfield, Mark Verber, Elizabeth Zwicky, and all the other people at Ohio State for suggestions and encourage- ment. Also, thanks to all the people on the net for putting up with, reporting bugs in, and suggesting new additions to the old tcsh editor. Printed 11/24/99 27 November 1996 39
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