The Tcsh package contains “an enhanced but completely compatible version of the Berkeley Unix C shell (csh)”. This is useful as an alternative shell for those who prefer C syntax to that of the bash shell, and also because some programs require the C shell in order to perform installation tasks.
Download (HTTP): http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/utils/shells/tcsh/tcsh-6.15.00.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/shells/tcsh/tcsh-6.15.00.tar.gz
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User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tcsh
Install Tcsh by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin && make && sh ./tcsh.man2html
To test the results, issue: make check. Note that test #68 (“nice” test) is known to fail.
Now, as the root
user:
make install install.man && ln -v -sf tcsh /bin/csh && ln -v -sf tcsh.1 /usr/man/man1/csh.1 && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/tcsh-6.15.00/html && install -v -m644 tcsh.html/* /usr/share/doc/tcsh-6.15.00/html && install -v -m644 FAQ /usr/share/doc/tcsh-6.15.00
--bindir=/bin
: This
installs the tcsh
program in /bin
instead of
/usr/bin
.
sh ./tcsh.man2html: This creates HTML documentation from the formatted man page.
ln -v -sf tcsh
/bin/csh: The FHS states that if there is a
C shell installed, there should be
a symlink from /bin/csh
to it. This
creates that symlink.
There are numerous configuration files for the C shell. Examples
of these are /etc/csh.cshrc
,
/etc/csh.login
, /etc/csh.logout
, ~/.tcshrc
, ~/.cshrc
, ~/.history
, ~/.cshdirs
, ~/.login
, and ~/.logout
. More information on these files can
be found in the tcsh(1)
man page.
Update /etc/shells
to include the C
shell program names (as the root
user):
cat >> /etc/shells << "EOF"
/bin/tcsh
/bin/csh
EOF
Last updated on 2008-05-09 07:42:27 -0500