Now it could be as simple as at work I use tsch, and at home it is bash.

Warning, first post and I am a complete newbie to unix.

At work, I use a simple script for updating a window when I am watching to see how a render is doing...

while 1
echo ---------------------------
echo
ls -lrth
echo
sleep 5
end

So I thought I would try the script on my home Mac. But nothing seems to happen. What would the problem be?

Thanks.

Bash while syntax is different. See the man page for bash or switch to tcsh on your MAC if it has it.

while list; do list; done