csh

nirmaltom · 05-18-2007, 07:32 AM

hi,
I want to write a basic original csh , not tcsh(since using solaris) to count the no of files in a directory and print whether they are > or = or < than 1
i am new to csh.
Where i am wrong?How to store the result of ls -1 | wc -l in files variable?

Quote:

#!/usr/bin/csh
files= ( ls -1 | wc -l )

if [ $files < 1] then
echo "No of files less than 1"
else if [ $files == 1 ] then
echo "No of files equal to 1"
else if [ $files > 1 ]then
echo "No of files greater than 1"
endif

thanks for any response.
regards,
nirmal Tom.

nirmaltom · 05-18-2007, 08:07 AM

hi,
got it, i was wrong at

Quote:

files= ( ls -1 | wc -l )

replaced it by

Quote:

setenv files `ls -1 | wc -l`

setenv used to set environmental variables, isnt it?
any elegant way to deal with it?
regards,
Nirmal Tom.