Questions tagged [tcsh]
tcsh (TENEX C shell) is a shell for Unix-like operating systems and an enhanced, but completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell (csh).
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Converting a tcsh alias into zsh
I had a tcsh alias as follows:
alias cdd 'cd `dirname \!*`'
I use this to change the directory to the one containing a certain file.
For instance,
cdd /Users/myself/Document/Folder/File.pdf
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DISPLAY=:0: Command not found
user@domain:~ $ echo $DISPLAY
:0
user@domain:~ $ DISPLAY=:0
DISPLAY=:0: Command not found.
Just trying to run the command here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46810043/notify-send-doesnt-work-...
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Bash equivalent of tcsh M-$?
Way back while studying I used tcsh as my main shell and it had this nifty feature of being able to correct a misspelled command name by pressing Escape-$ which would the. change eg “bsah” to “bash”
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tcsh equivalent of bash command (deleting all but 10 most recently modified directoies)
Below keeps latest 10 directories and delete the rest. Works fine with bash.
What would be TCSH equivalent to bash below?
keep = 10
rm -r $(ls -dt */ | tail -n +$((keep+1)))
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tcsh way of pattern substitution
I am using tcsh shell with Jenkins. In short, the matching suffix should be removed from the output.
Achieved in bash with the following.
cd ${WORKSPACE%${JOB_NAME}}
Case:
Given the following ...
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Replace backslash path for forward slash path with sed in loop
I want to replace windows server paths (\\100.100.0.0\aaa\bbb\ccc\) with linux paths /foo/bar/ on all occurrences inside all .txt files in a folder (/xxx/yyy/zzz/).
For that I made a loop that does ...
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I am writing a cronjob, I need a command that confirms that some of the files are successfully transferred from an MFT server to my local server
I use the following command:
sftp -o "StrictHostKeyChecking" -r -P [portNumber] technicalUser@hostName:/path/2022* /LocalPath
After I execute the above command, all of the files which start ...
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What are the color options in tcsh?
I was recently required to move to the tcsh shell and I was wondering about colors.
Especially what is the difference between the following:
setenv CLICOLOR 1
set color
set colorcat
Which one do I ...
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How to search DuckDuckGo with the command-line (tcsh)?
There is a simple function I use a lot to look up things on the web
In Fish
function ddg
set URL "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=$(echo "$argv" | tr " " "+")"
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recursive history search for tcsh shell
In bash shell, i generally use CTRL+R to fuzzy search a command that i executed recently.
However the same doesn't seem to work for tcsh or csh shells.
I want to understand if/how to do the same ...
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How to pass a variable to a sed command in a csh script?
Unix & Sed noob here!
I have a requirement where I need to put a suffix ",waive" in case a line in a report containing a matching string.The matching string is part of another file "...
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How to redirect the stderr to /dev/null and the stdout to the pipe in tcsh?
I have the following code in tcsh:
set dirs = `find $path -follow -name "test" | grep -v ".data"`
It will find all the directories that have test directory under it, without ...
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C shell and mesa installation
I am trying to install mesastar following these instructions:
http://user.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=mesasdk
I do not have C Shell from prerequisites.
I have Linux mint and tried
sudo apt-...
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put text along with unix command then feed to a file
In the tcsh shell on Unix, I would like to print the folder name together with the number of files that I searched, then feed it to a file.
However I just manage to find the number of count then write ...
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while command not working when bash script is sourced in tcsh?
I had made a bash shell script which include while command but when I run the script using source command on terminal, it gives a syntax error message.
I need to use source because I have to set the ...
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In tcsh, how can I keep '{' '}' in assigning a variable?
I am making a simple shell script using the tcsh shell.
I assigned a variable as a command to use later.
But brackets within single quotes disappear.
set aaa = "test '10' '{}' ' " ; echo $...
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using 2 alias together in cshell terminal
lets say I have 2 aliases, each having multiple arguments.
It looks somewhat like below example
alias s1 "command1 -a -b -c"
alias s2 "command2 -d -e -f"
now if I run :s1 s2 in ...
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Avoiding non-zero exit code when running `ls` using multiple patterns
Say I have two possible paths I want to list directories and files under on a Linux machine:
/some/path1/
/some/path2/
If I do the following in tcsh, I get 0 exit code, if at least one of path1 or ...
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how to translate this bashrc code to suse 11 commands
I am trying to link MATLAB with Cadence Virtuoso (an electrical engineering software) in SUSE Linux 11, and I have manual PDF that is the guide to do so. My problem is that the commands that are given ...
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tcsh scripting - keep newlines of grep results
I am writing a simple script in tcsh (apparently that's a bad idea, but well) to grep some patterns from a text file. Say we have a file animal_names.txt which consists of:
dog carrot
dog bolt
cat ...
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using awk with variables in a shell script
I have a file called "random" that looks like this:
A B C D
A B C D
A B C D
How can I get this shell script to print up the second column?
#! /usr/bin/tcsh -f
set variable = "2"
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loop through file by row in tcsh
This is a very similar question to How to loop over the lines of a file?.
I have a file with rows with n fields, separated by spaces. I want to loop through this file by row, and use the set the ...
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Debian tcsh not respecting locale for character class expansion
Using Debian 11, tcsh version
tcsh 6.21.00 (Astron) 2019-05-08 (x86_64-unknown-linux) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,nd,color,filec
In a directory with two files, a and A,
$ echo [a-z]
a A
This ...
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Changing terminal prompt in `tcsh`
My terminal shell prompt defaults to [johnnine@tec ~]$.
How should I use "set prompt" in ~/.cshrc, so that it also displays time?
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Running a program with the same as an existing command
Let's say I make a runnable program called "xeyes.exe" in my current directory.
When I type the command "xeyes" into the command prompt, why does the program run instead of the ...
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Use bash instead of tcsh for non-interactive shells
I have an environment similar to the one in this question: Different shells for interactive and non-interactive work
I'm currently stuck with tcsh as my "official" default shell. For ...
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Behaviour of single and double quotes depending on shell
I've been scratching my head for quite some time with this....
Inspired by this answer, I'm trying to run 'ack' and to find either a single quote or a double quote in source files.
Doing this in bash ...
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Syntax to select a group of files based on extension?
I have several files in the following form,
Group - 1
file1.n001
file2.n002
file3.n003
file4.n004
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filex.nx
Group - 2
file1.ntemp
file2.nreal
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:etc
In order to remove only files, with ...
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Access the shell printout that resulted from the previous command
I have to run a command that prints out a message in my shell, with a path to a file.
>> myCommand.py
>> outputs path to file
I'd like to know if this message is stored anywhere so that I ...
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C-shell prompt color
I wan to change the color of my csh shell. I've edited my .cshrc file, following the instruction I've found here, and included this in it:
set yellow="%{\033[1;33m%}"
set end="%{\...
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TCSH: 'Can't find string terminator' Error From perl -e in TCSH Script
I'm seeing this error from my tcsh script and I can't figure out why.
Script:
#!/usr/bin/env tcsh
foreach n (0 1)
set PERL_CMD = "perl -e 'print qq^RUNNING^; exit ${n} '"
echo "...
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How to quote exclamation marks in file names in a tcsh shell script with find and awk?
I have a script that searches for space characters ' ', exclamation marks '!' and dollar signs '$' in filenames and replaces each with an underscore '_'. However, it does not handle file names with ...
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tcsh and matching [0-9]
I have a rather odd situation where [0-9] matching is not working under tcsh (but working under csh and bash). here is an example:
muon:~/tmp.52 ls
a0 a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 apollo_help.docx*
muon:~/...
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How can I prevent standard output from displaying as a standard error in csh or tcsh?
When executing a process in the background using '&', the standard output goes to standard error. This happens if an error is detected in the standard error output when executing a command, or if ...
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Applying numfmt on a specific column in awk
I'm writing a script in tcsh (yes... I know but I have to) to analyze all users disk usage in a specific directory.
In the end, I want to produce a report in the next format:
user1 1.6GB
user2 1.1GB
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Issue processing multiple files, counting lines
Sorry if it's long and confusing, but I have three files, namely cat, dog, and cow.
My code is something like this:
echo -e "Enter file name: \c"
read filename #saves ...
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Count number of lines in file and save result to new text file [closed]
I want to count the number of lines in a file called "cat"
my script to run in CMD is
echo -e "Enter file name: \c"
read filename
wc -l $filename
which leads to result [24 cat] ...
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loop with array in TCSH shell
In TCSH :
I'm giving two lists containing different files in it. Then I have to pass those list as an array element and then the loop should execute twice as there are only 2 lists.
But in this case ...
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How to run command with tcsh and keep the shell alive?
I'm using tcsh. I want to open a new interactive tcsh shell and run command. I want to do it like:
tcsh -c <command>
The problem is that tcsh executes the command and exits the interactive ...
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Using single quotes inside input of heredocs
I need some help debugging my tcsh script. It uses heredocs. The code:
<pre_setup> <<EOF1
<setup> <<EOF2
<command>
exit 0
EOF2
exit 0
EOF1
The <pre_setup> is ...
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What does it mean <<EOF in (t)csh?
I have the following command:
wash -n <groups> <<EOF
echo hi
echo bye <<BYE
<commands>
exit 0
BYE
exit 0
EOF
<commands>
where <groups> are some groups and <...
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assign letters to jump forward and backward in bash
My default shell is tcsh. In my .cshrc file. I have bindkey -v, so that at the command line, the letters b and w jump backwards and forwards a word, respectively. I'd like to set up bash so that ...
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recover a directory moved into itself
Through shell shortcuts I accidentally moved a dir into itself and now it seems to have disappeared. Here is the sequence cut-n-pasted directly from the terminal:
$ chmod a+x load_test_set.sh ~/bin
$ ...
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How to escape all of the special characters in order to be able to print the string as is?
I'm creating a tcsh script on the fly (with a static language). I have a <add-command-here> section that contains some command. I want to do:
echo <add-command-here>
In that <add-...
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When defining an environment variable, I get "Command not found"
When I type HELLO="hello", I would expect to create an environment variable called HELLO. Instead, I get the error HELLO=hello: Command not found. What could be going wrong here?
I am on ...
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for loop in FreeBSD (pfSense) doesn't work
I've just noticed that the same code for for loop in bash doesn't work in FreeBSD
wolf@linux:~$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
wolf@linux:~$
wolf@linux:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done
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wolf@linux:~$...
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tcsh grep trouble
I use FreeBSD
> uname -sr
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE
When I query
> grep `whoami` /etc/passwd
It shows me the information I want:
But when I try getting it in a tcsh script:
#!/bin/tcsh
set login = `...
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xterm is calling .cshrc twice
I'm running ubuntu 18.04, I've asked this question on askubuntu, but got no response, so I thought I'd ask on a different forum, hoping for a different readership. I do know that the same problem ...
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sourcing in bash doesn't mimic sourcing in tcsh
The file below, which I've called /tmp/ltSortedList, when sourced in tcsh, outputs lines in different colors:
echo "\033[0;34m R:0 2020 12 10 18:53 regularFile "\\e[0m
echo &...
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PATH behaves differently in bash and csh when directory is execute only?
We have some applications in various subdirectories that we limit access to by unix group, and we want them to be execute only. So, for example, if we want members of the "chem" group to ...
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