Re: Badly formed number error with tcsh

Ok, now I understand the problem,

I gave the nice version get from a bash because in tcsh the option -v, 
--version and -version gave me the error "nice: Badly formed number.". I 
thought that was related to the bad detection of "-". "/usr/bin/nice 
--version" in tcsh give me the GNU version message. You have right it's 
a build-in command.

I fact, I just used tcsh because it's needed to build OpenOffice.org. 
Overwise I always use bash.

I'm sorry to flood your bug system with bugs not related to GNU nice.

Marc



Bob Proulx wrote:
>>I found the following problem with nice 2.0.11:
>>
> 
> If you would be so kind as to report the 'nice --version' output to
> the list it would be appreciated.  I believe you will find that it is
> not the GNU version.
> 
> 
>>with tcsh
>>
> 
> If you are using tcsh then you are using the tcsh built-in version and
> NOT the GNU version.
> 
> 
>>   Marc:~/src/openoffice/oo_641c_src> nice -n -19 bootstrap
>>   nice: Badly formed number.
>>
> 
> I believe you will find that 'nice' is a built-in command to tcsh.  I
> believe you are NOT running the GNU nice program but are running the
> tcsh shell built-in.
> 
> 
>>nice +19 bootstrap is ok;
>>
>>nice -19 give me:
>>  setpriority: Permission denied.
>>
> 
> The tcsh man page says:
> 
>        nice [+number] [command]
>                Sets the scheduling priority for the shell to num-
>                ber, or, without number, to 4. With command,  runs
>                command  at the appropriate priority.  The greater
>                the number, the less cpu the  process  gets.   The
>                super-user  may specify negative priority by using
>                `nice -number ...'.  Command is always executed in
>                a  sub-shell,  and the restrictions placed on com-
>                mands in simple if statements apply.
> 
> And therefore what you are seeing cooresponds to the tcsh built-in
> nice command.  What does 'nice --version' say?  If it does not say GNU
> then it is not.
> 
> 
>>No problem with bash.
>>
> 
> Bash does not implement nice as a built-in.  In the case of bash you
> are probably running the actual GNU nice program.  If you look at the
> 'nice --version' output you will see.
> 
> 
>>I hope it is not a "feature" of tcsh.
>>
> 
> Sorry, it is a feature of tcsh.  Perhaps you should switch?  csh was
> the ultimate paper terminal command shell.  But I have not used a
> paper terminal in 17 years.  Just for fun, here is a famous treatise
> on the subject.
> 
>   http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/versus/csh.html
> 
> Bob
> 
>