UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

What's inputfile's contents? Does that file exist?

If you were using a standards-conforming shell (such as bash or ksh), you could use something like:

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for inputfile in AC-*
do	sort -n -o z-"$inputfile" "$inputfile" && rm "$inputfile"
done

Since you choose to use csh, it is up to you to translate this code to create a loop in csh and to only run the rm command after if verifies that the sort command completed successfully.

I don't have a file called inputfile. I tried to install bash to my pc but I didn't succeed, so I have no other option to use C Shell and Unix subsystems for Windows. Could somebody help me to make the codes that have been offered in this thread before suitable for C Shell?

What output do you get when you run the command:

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whereis sh bash csh ksh

in csh?

Perhaps not, but you do *have* some (file that serves as) inputfile, no? It makes sense to call a variable holding the name of it "inputfile". Corollary advice: when the navigation system in your car tells you to "turn right" it doesn't mean you should rotate clockwise on your seat either.

bash is part of the SUA, so it should be already there when you install it (correctly). I suggest you get the installation of the SUA right first and only then start to worry about C shell - if it is still necessary at all, that is. Doing something wrong first and then patch it somehow to almost work is a sure way to disaster in the long run anyway, so it is better to correct that now better than later.

I hope this heps.

bakunin

I would like to make the question simpler - how to simply sort all of the files in one folder. Just like

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sort  >

I have 6000 files in that folder and I would like to know if it is possible to sort all of them with one command.

A reply to Don Cragun

If I will run

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whereis sh bash csh ksh

I will get

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whereis: Command not found.

OK. What output do you get from the commands:

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echo "PATH=$PATH"
ls /bin/*sh /usr/bin/*sh