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# 1  
Old 10-12-2011
for: command not found
I have installed Solaris recently. I was doing "for file in *.c; ...." at the command prompt, it says for: command not found. I tried changing shells, but still wouldn't work.

Any ideas?
# 2  
Old 10-12-2011
Show exactly what you typed and exactly what you got back, word for word, letter for letter, keystroke for keystroke. copy/paste or screenshot if you can. I suspect there's a typo or some missing whitespace in there.

Or... do you happen to have IFS set to a funny value?
# 3  
Old 10-12-2011
% for i in *.c; do mv $i $i.cpp; done;

for: command not found
i: undefined variable
# 4  
Old 10-12-2011
You may be stuck in the C shell, which doesn't have for.

What shells did you try changing to, and in what way did they "not work"?
# 5  
Old 10-12-2011
every time I echo $SHELL, I get /usr/bin/tcsh. How do I get out of this, I just put in at console, csh, bash...I am not sure if it actually does change the shell.
# 6  
Old 10-12-2011
running (t)csh won't get you out of (t)csh Smilie

If you run bash and it does not say 'command not found', you're in bash. It doesn't change SHELL unless you used the shell to login.

If you can't find bash, try ksh, zsh, or sh.
# 7  
Old 10-12-2011
Great! In bash works fine. I do have another question, if I have a shell, i.e. hello.csh, I can run it using ./hello.csh, But what do I need to do to run by doing just "hello" or "hello.csh" without the "./". I have seen this done before.

Thanks
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