tcsh vs bash

[Bob Tennent]

After logging out and re-logging in, everything now works in tcsh
terminals.   Sorry for the noise.

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 9:17 AM Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > everything works. Good. But now I want to switch to using tcsh as my
> SHELL
> > and then nothing works.  The PATH variable is OK and the main difference
> in
> > the output of tlmgr conf in tcsh is the following:
>
> Hmmm ...
>
> > Missing argument in sprintf at /usr/local/bin/tlmgr line 6461.
>
> I guess that comes from this code:
>           for my $m (sort(qw/fmtutil.cnf config.ps mktex.cnf
> pdftexconfig.tex/)) {
>             info(sprintf("%-17s %s", "$m:", `kpsewhich $m`));
>           }
> and the missing argument means that the backticks didn't work.
>
> What is your
>         /bin/sh
> pointing at? I hope not csh or so - because that would be badly broken.
> /bin/sh should be something bourne/ksh/whatever, but **never** (t)csh.
>
> Backticks should use /bin/sh - AFAIR ...
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>
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