Shell Programming and Scripting

Hallo,

I try to write a program which processes an input-file linewise.
I created the following minimal example:

hash-problem:

Code:

#!/bin/tcsh
foreach text ("`cat $1`")
      echo $text
end

Usually, it works as expected, but there are two problems:

1. If the argument of hash-problem has an #, then I get an error:

Code:

localhost:~/scripts/tcsh.text$ hash-problem ex#1.txt 
cat: ex: No such file or directory
Exit 1
Exit 1

2. If the file ex1.txt includes some line with [], for example
"eoi oij4g 4g4g [hde] vrrvw", then I get an error:

Code:

localhost:~/scripts/tcsh.text$ hash-problem ex2.txt
echo: No match.
Exit 1
Exit 1

Best regards,
Daniel

The 2. problem is avoided by

Code:

echo "$text"

The 1. problem perhaps by

Code:

foreach text ("`cat "$1"`")

or by

Code:

foreach text ("`cat $1:q`")

--
Consider rewriting your script in shell!

Code:

#!/bin/sh
while read text
do
  echo "$text"
done < "$1"

Tcsh is a shell. /bin/sh generally refers to the Bourne shell - which is a ever older shell than the Tenex C shell. I suspect you meant to recommend using a more modern shell such as the Bash shell.

The above solution by MadeInGermany for the 2nd problem
works very well. Thanks alot.

However, both suggestions for the 1st problem do not work,
I still get the same error.
For now, I found a clumpsy solution: In the beginning, the script changes all #'s in the current directory to _'s, and at the
end, it renames _'s back to #'s.

Daniel