Hi again, still not working. I got the spaces figured out with my teacher, but i cannot fix the logic. What I have right now is three sections: read, write, execute. If I say: "If the file is not readable, change it to readable and echo the appropriate message, otherwise change it unreadable" If I leave it with +r | -r | +r, it works, except it only echoes The file has been changed to readable (writeable, executable) If I change the permissions to -r | -r | +r or anything similar, it returns the expression syntax. In the read section I show the adjusted one (with expr. syntax), in other two sections what I had originally, it works except returns the first echo only

#!/bin/csh
# This script will accept a file name as one argument and the word
# read, write or execute as the second argument
# On top of that, it will switch the permissions to the opposite one

if ($2 == read) then
if (+r $1) then
chmod -r $1
echo Permission changed to readable
else
chmod +r $1
echo Permission changed to not readable
endif
else if ($2 == write) then
if (-w $1) then
chmod +w $1
echo Permission changed to writeable
else
chmod -w $1
echo Permission changed to not writeable
endif
else
if (-x $1) then
chmod +x $1
echo Permission changed to executable
else
chmod -x $1
echo Permission changed to non executable
endif
endif