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Well the issue was an error message i.e. "Missing -."
It had to do with spelling. I wrote
switch ($argv[i]) and it should be switch ($argv[$i])

Works now - thank you again.
I'll try to be more...

It has to do with test vs production.
Our IT will not allow any testing in production environment - that is why we have a box, "university" box laying around that we can use to mess around with...

Hello everyone - I have the task to create a file list script that will list files in directory based on the parameters passed to the program.
It has to be a C Shell - I mentioned that before but I...

Thank you for your help - I really appreciate.
I am afraid that I have to use C Shell - part of the assignment.
Here is the output of the command:

Linux merlin 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 #1 SMP...

Not sure about the OS - this is a university box.
As for the shell it is a C shell.
So then, is there any workaround this situation? No other way to combine ls and file command to get a list of...

Here is what i get when I try to run the following command:
ls -b | grep -v "/$" | xargs file -b

Illegal variable name - I think is has to do with grep -v "/$"
I can run ls -b with no problem.

Maybe I am not clear enough - my task is to list the files from the current directory in the following format:
FileName FileSize FileType

So I was able to do the first 2 columns by using the...

No no.
I do have it and it works - I jus don't know how to pipe it with ls -p
To get it to work.

Does that make sense?
Thank you.

Hello everyone - I have a task of listing files from a directory together with their type.
I tried using
ls -l | file -b

or different versions of that but that did not work.
I will need this...