I did what you said but still it shows the same error message. I am curious, the first line of the error message
why does it say that? I have the .cell file in my directory tree!
The error message is coming from inside the script and it is, because where the script is there is no such file as "*.cell". Note that "*.cell" is meaning all the files in the current directory with a name ending in ".cell". But what "current directory" means depends on where you were when you started the script.
This is why you should always use absolute paths (paths starting from the root dir) in scripts. For instance:
Notice, that the full path is only named once, then used throughout the script. Think about what content each of the variables holds at which time and what the complete commands with expanded variables would look like. I suggest you adapt the script a bit and play around with it.
Having said this, you cycle through all directories and call the script for each directory once, but the directories you cycle through are nowhere mentioned in your script. You probably should do something with the directory names you cycle through, otherwise there is no sense in doing this, no?
What you do is:
What you probably want to do is something like:
Supposing that the script can do something with the directory name it gets passed. To understand how to do something with passed parameters you should read the man page of your shell (mind you, "bash" or "ksh", but DEFINITELY NOT csh! Do not even consider to use csh for scripts, the damned thing is buggy to no end!).
Here is a short introduction:
save this to a file "myparam.sh", slap on the executable-bit and issue:
Hi Guys,
I have a loop which uses a wildcard
i.e. foreach f (*)
but when I execute the tcsh file in unix then it gives me an error
->>>>>>>foreach: words not parenthesized<<<<<<<<<<-
Any help. (1 Reply)
Hi everyone
Does anyone know what is wrong with this script. i keep getting errors
foreach filename (`cat testing1`)
set string=$filename
set depth=`echo "$string"
echo $depth
end
the error is the following
testing: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
testing: line 1:... (3 Replies)
I have a foreach loop in a csh script and I noticed that it tries to find the files with the pattern *$searchpt* in the file name. I'm confused as I never specified checking for the files.
foreach f ( *$searchpt* )
set fnew = `echo $f | awk -v searchpat=$searchpt \
... (1 Reply)
Hey all,,
I know cshell is harmful:) but I am using this just "to know" - for educational purposes!... not for a long-term use.
lets say i have a list..
set arr=(x y z e f)
I wanna iterate the list with foreach ,, not with while.!!
foreach i $arr
echo $i
end
does not work (2 Replies)
Hello all,
I'm working on a foreach loop to compare a couple sets of data. However, each datafile includes a header row. I'm wondering if it is possible to tell the foreach loop to skip the first line of data.
I've been using the basic code as follows:
foreach line ("`file.csv`")
set... (2 Replies)
I am trying to make a script for my Counter-Strike: Source servers. What i am wanting it to do is for it to restart each server, the only way i can think of doing this in through for each.
Years what i have at the moment.
server_start() {
START=`ps x | grep SCREEN | grep $SRV | cut -d '?' -f... (5 Replies)
Dear all,
I wrote a script to download files and move files in directories according to their name.
Now here is the problem:
Both p101 and p360 data download successfully, but when I move them according to the year and month, only p101 data can be placed at the right location, p360,... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone I'm new to unix and encountered a small problem i couldnt find out a reason why it doesn't work..please help..
in my csh script when i tried to use the foreach loop like this:
foreach x ( ls )
echo $x
end
when i tried to run it, it printed out 'ls' to the std out instead of... (3 Replies)
Just started shell scripting for the first time today :D Can anyone tell me why I get the error "foreach: Words not parenthesized." for my following code? The program takes in a list of arguments.
foreach card ($argv)
echo Hello
end (3 Replies)