setting variables in tcsh temporarily

[Matthew Seaman]

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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