I want to write a start up script in tsch that creates a directory some where named with the current user id. I was hoping the following would work.
Set A = (id -u -n)
But I'm not sure how to handle the output of the command id properly for this kind of variable assignment.
You were very close, you use this instead:
set A=`id -u -n`
The ` characters tell tcsh to run the command and then set assigns the output to A. You can make that variable read only too, with:
set -r A=`id -u -n`
After doing so, attempting to override its value will give:
> set A=foo
set: $A is read-only.
