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I assume `set HOME = /some/location` is the tcsh syntax to set a variable. In Bash, it doesn't do anything useful.

• dllthomas 13y ago
  Ah, right, duh.
• kps 13y ago
  > In Bash, it doesn't do anything useful. In sh and derived shells, it sets the arguments ($1, $2, and so on). In this case you end up with $1 being ‘HOME’, $2 being ‘=’, and $3 being ‘/some/location’.