Using modules with csh shell. csh not my choice, cannot change that.

I want to keep the $jobRunName as exactly that in the alias, so in the shell that can be a shell env var to use there.

set-alias seems to want to change $ into !!, I have not found anything about that anywhere in the googlez.

In the modulefile loaded:

set queueNameBatch "testQueue"
set jobRunName "\$jobRunName"
set jobQcmd             "sbatch -o ./logs/srun.%j.log -e ./logs/srun.%j.err -J $jobRunName -p "
set-alias qt "$jobQcmd $queueNameBatch "

which qt
qt:      aliased to sbatch -o ./logs/srun.%j.log -e ./logs/srun.%j.err -J !!:jobRunName -p  testQueue 

I had previously tried {} instead of "" around he alias string but that just gave me

set-alias qt {$jobQcmd $queueNameBatch }

which qt
qt:      aliased to !!:jobQcmd !!:queueNameBatch 

So the doublequotes seem better here

Any idea how to fix this so !!: goes back to the intended $ sign?

Using modules with csh shell. csh not my choice, cannot change that.

I want to keep the $jobRunName as exactly that in the alias, so in the shell that can be a shell env var to use there.

set-alias seems to want to change $ into !!, I have not found anything about that anywhere in the googlez.

In the modulefile loaded:

set queueNameBatch "testQueue"
set jobRunName "\$jobRunName"
set jobQcmd             "sbatch -o ./logs/srun.%j.log -e ./logs/srun.%j.err -J $jobRunName -p "
set-alias qt "$jobQcmd $queueNameBatch "

which qt
qt:      aliased to sbatch -o ./logs/srun.%j.log -e ./logs/srun.%j.err -J !!:jobRunName -p  testQueue 

I had previously tried {} instead of "" around he alias string but that just gave me

set-alias qt {$jobQcmd $queueNameBatch }

which qt
qt:      aliased to !!:jobQcmd !!:queueNameBatch 

So the doublequotes seem better here

Any idea how to fix this so !!: goes back to the intended $ sign?

• csh
• modulefile

1 Answer 1

Modules change variable reference for csh shell. Using puts modulefile command will help to get the exact expected alias code

set qt_alias {sbatch -o ./logs/srun.%j.log -e ./logs/srun.%j.err -J $jobRunName -p testQueue}

if {[module-info shelltype csh] && [module-info mode load]} {
    puts stdout "alias qt \"$qt_alias\";"
} else {
    set-alias qt $qt_alias
}