Question

C shell uses which command for assigning values to variables?

(a) =

(b) set

(c) unset

(d) $

The question was posed to me by my college professor while I was bunking the class.

This interesting question is from Command Substitution and Shell Variables topic in division The Shell of Unix

Answer 1

Right choice is (b) set

For explanation I would say: The C shell uses the set statement to set variables. There is a restriction that there either has to be whitespace on both sides of = or none at all. For example, for assigning a value to a variable named count, use the following command: