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Old 01-28-2011
How to ignore errors in script
I have a simple script that processes files. Here's a simplified example of what I'm doing:
Code:
foreach t (web.*)
  mv $t dnw$t:e.log
end
 
foreach t (card.*)
  mv $t card$t:e.log
end

The problem is that sometimes there is no web.* file. In that case, I get an error "foreach: No match" and the script terminates.

I don't want the script to terminate. If web.* does not exist, I simply want the script to drop through to the next command, and, in this case, process card.*.

How do I keep the script from terminating and get it to drop through to the next command?

(I'm on a FreeBSD Unix server.)

Thank you.
# 2  
Old 01-28-2011
Insert at head of loop:
Code:
if [ "$t" = "web.*" ]
then
 break
fi

or change loop:
Code:
ls web.* 2>/dev/null | while read t
do
 . . .
done

# 3  
Old 01-28-2011
Please post the output from the command :
Code:
echo "${SHELL}"


(You seem to be posting "csh" commands and DGPickett is posting "ksh" commands).
Last edited by methyl; 01-28-2011 at 08:02 PM..
# 4  
Old 01-28-2011
Yes, methyl, thanks for catching this. I am using c-shell (output from the echo is /bin/csh . Sorry, I should have mentioned that.
# 5  
Old 01-30-2011
Perhaps somebody who knows "csh" or "tcsh" can help out here. Most unix/Linux System Administrators use use Bourne Shell and its many derivatives (ksh; bash; ash; Posix sh; etc.).

You will not find "csh" in any unix or Linux system startup scripts.
 
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