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Hi I want to basically sort some data files that I have based on the date.
Here is my issue, the date is in the form of "2010-05-24T09:48:55-04"

All I really need is the date so perhaps I could...

Woah thank very much, honestly I have not tried it out yet since I have to integrate that into my script first.

What does the '-nlae' mean, or could you give a brief explanation on what is going...

yeah sry bout that. the messages go like this
"Last acessed 2011-06-24 by username at 07:32:55"

Basically right now I just get these files in an array and grep a certain argument like 2011-06. I...

Hi so I have these files where the first thing in them says something along the lines of "This document was accessed 'date' blah blah", I was thinking of a way to extract that date and then sort the...

Hi I am doing something basic like...

if ($stringvariable =~ /have not typed/)

I have a little problem because the 'not' in the expression gets highlighted as a kind of a '!'..what am I...

So I am attempting to get a short but complex perl script to be able to time out an application that I will launch from a command line. The terminal I use is MKS C SHELL and I am having trouble doing...

yeah looks like it.. i hear about csh, there is already a library of scripts so i cannot just switch like that.
ill try that out thanks

Im using MKS Toolkit c shell

I want to check if a command will nit return a certain message. If so....blah blah blah.

if ( `command argument` != "ERROR!" ) then
that did not work for me
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if ( "$path" !~ "c:/PROGRA~1/blah/blah" ) then

worked for me

Hi I am using MKS Toolkit c shell.

I want to basically check if my PATH variable already contains a certain path directory so I tried this (it didnt work!): if: Expression Syntax

if ( echo...

O wow ya that worked like a charm. it was PROGRA~1 for me but it worked well.
btw do you know where those initial PATH variables come from the shell has before I even source any script? I'd like to...

Ya I am almost positive its suppose to be set like this. But! I actually found the problem...well at least theoretically.
You were right the \ does work to espace the character it just that...

Ha ya I thought the same thing. The first one is ignored and the second one remains. The space is not escaped and is intepreted at a type of seperator for the next variable. I'm trying different...

yes I tried that it didnt work for me...:(

Hi I am using MKS Toolkit c shell.

I am trying to set a path variable something like c:/Program Files/blah/blah

so
set path=(c:/Program Files/blah/blah)

this, however, does not work as...

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So I have to debug some csh scripts, which to me seems like the most painful task period.

So far I 'echo' in different places to get an idea of whats going on.
I also know the 'csh -x...

I am just getting into web development and I want to understand it better and more theoretically. :D
So by now I can create some basic websites with html, css, php, etc, but what I do not understand...

thanks! that was really simple wow

hi so I was debugging some scripts and I ran into a problem that did not come up before

grep -n "$variable"$ ./file.txt

I figured the second $ is meant to reference the end of the line but...

Since I'm usually on windows I've came across different shells like Cygwin, Hamilton, and MKS. I've been working in csh most of the time, so porting scripts from one shell to another can be fairly...

Honestly I am not sure, and I don't know where to get this information sorry, but I can say I am using the latest version of MKS C Shell..

but does anyone know how I could perhaps write an alias...

ye sorry I did not specify, so I am using windows and c shell(i know not the best idea)..basically I am pretty sure there isn't a built in fuction but I've seen people use c shell and do the up and...

I am working in a shell, and I am used to using the up and down keys as a shortcut for the history of input commands, but it does not work for me on my new shell and computer.

is there a variable...

I am currently trying out MKS Toolkit C Shell, and I've no problems with it until I try add directories to PATH that are located on a network drive.

When I do that, the shell performance slows...

I am using C Shell MKS Toolkit and I ran into a huge problem when setting up some environment variables.:confused:

The csh script that I have as my login script runs fine but very very slow....