Comparing Expressions with tcsh

As stated earlier, the method for comparing expressions in tcsh is different from the method used under pdksh and bash. The comparison of expression demonstrated in this section uses the syntax necessary for the tcsh shell environment.

String Comparison

You can use the following operators to compare two string expressions:

Image ==—To compare whether two strings are equal.

Image !=—To compare whether two strings are not equal.

The following examples compare two strings, string1 and string2, in the shell program compare1:

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