[help]setenv: Too many arguments.[help]

[zhangr_2]

Hi,
I've got a problem recently.
I've two big applications ,both of them are needed to set a lot of parameters in the csh enviroment .and of course I also have some personal parameter need to be set.
but after I add all the lines(like below) to a env.cshrc
setenv PARAMATER1 XXXXXX
...
and run the command
source /PATH/TO/env.cshrc
I got a error message:

setenv: Too many arguments.

and as it said.
some parameters no set as well.
I'm just wondering ,is there a limition of the numbers of csh's parameter?
how can I fix this problem?if later I have more applications and need more parameters needed to be set,what can I do?
thanks

Br Rzhang

[Bharat Katkar]

What i undestand is your are giving too many arguments to setenv command.
Just go back and check by mistake if your syntax i.e. setenv PARAMATER1 XXXXXX is consistent allover.
What you have given is correct but somewhere it might have gone wrong.

[zhangr_2]

actually,I have 3 *.cshrc file there are :
app1.cshrc / app2.cshrc / personal.cshrc
before I add "source app2.cshrc" to ~/.cshrc ,I only "source app1.cshrc;source personal.cshrc" in my ~/.cshrc
I can source ~/.cshrc successfully , when the ~/.cshrc only have 2 *.cshrc file i.e.(app1.cshrc + personal.cshrc) or (app2.cshrc + personal.cshrc)
but failed when the ~/.cshrc have all the three *.cshrc (app1.cshrc + app2.cshrc + personal.cshrc)

[Victor Fridyev · Accepted solution]

Hi,

May be some of the parameters have a space. Could you use setenv in the following form ?
setenv PARAMETER "VALUE"
Use double quots, this may prevent such errors.

HTH

[Jeroen Peereboom]

Probably there is an error in app2.cshrc.

I would use a 'binary search' to find the offending line: comment out half of the lines and see if the error is in the remaining lines or in the lines commented out. Next, refine you search.

I too believe you have a space somewhere in an parameter assignment.

Maybe the cshell has a verbose mode like the posix shells ('set -xv')?

JP.

[zhangr_2]

Jeroen Peereboom / Victor Fridyev are right.actually the problem is caused by syntax problem. 8-)
sorry for my careless! 8-)