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Old 05-07-2009
Bash one liner to CSH
Hello all, I have a Bash command I'm using on one system that replaces text in filenames, I'ts not working on another system that uses the Csh shell. Can anyone tell me what I need to do

when i run

for f in *;do mv $f ${f/text1/text2};done


on the CSH shell i get ""Missing }.""
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Old 05-07-2009
Is bash shell present on the system? if yes add the shebang on first line
of your script
#!bin/bash
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Old 05-07-2009
ahh, no i forgot to mention, I would have just switched to bash, but its not installed, and I cannot install it.
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Old 05-07-2009
anyone?, cant find much help online about csh syntax
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Old 05-08-2009
Does anyone instead know of an equivalent command using CSH syntax, I am trying to replace the text in a few hundred filenames
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Old 05-08-2009
Well, since nobody seems to know the answer to this, I came up with an answer using a few lines of python, where are the Csh gurus? Anyway, here it is if it helps anyone, searches and replaces text in filenames in the current directory

import string
import os
for f in os.listdir('.'):
filename = f
filename = filename.replace("jonah","aaron")
os.rename(f,filename)
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Old 05-08-2009
Google for "csh programming considered harmful" (or just click here) to find CSH experts
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