Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 00:34:23 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tcsh issue Message-ID: <20151204003423.6e95c19b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <56605CE0.4010105@hiwaay.net> References: <56605CE0.4010105@hiwaay.net>
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On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 09:22:18 -0553.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > I am having a puzzling problem w/ the tcsh shell locating a script that > I think it should be finding: > > > [wam@devbox, TEST, 9:18:10am] 1399 % which beginbg > beginbg: Command not found. > [wam@devbox, TEST, 9:18:21am] 1400 % set > _ which beginbg > [...] > path (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin > /usr/local/bin /home/wam/bin) [...] > [wam@devbox, TEST, 9:18:25am] 1401 % lf /home/wam/bin [...] > BenchMarks.tgz VectorExe.AMD64.new~* beginbg* [...] > [wam@devbox, TEST, 9:18:38am] 1402 % which beginbg > beginbg: Command not found. > [wam@devbox, TEST, 9:18:49am] 1403 % uname -a > FreeBSD devbox 9.3-RELEASE-p30 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p30 #0: Mon Nov 2 > 10:11:50 UTC 2015 > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > [wam@devbox, TEST, 9:19:55am] 1404 % > > > i.e. the file 'beginbg' ( a shell script) appears in the file ~/bin > (/home/wam/bin) which is in the search path, yet the shell doesn't find > it .... Pilot error ? TIA for any clues & have a good one. Just make sure permissions are okay (but it seems to be correct from the completition list): % ls -la /home/wam/bin/beginbg Also make sure the shell has "picked up" a new command. Use % rehash to let the shell know about any new commands in $PATH. And then read "Csh Programming Considered Harmful" written by Tom Christiansen: http://sc.tamu.edu/help/other/CshProgrammingConsideredHarmful.html I'm just saying because I once wrote a C shell script to automatically enumerate files... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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