From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Dec 3 23:40:14 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AF6A3E729 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 23:40:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA6201449 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 23:40:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-76-245.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.76.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D55663CED3; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 00:34:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id tB3NYNwp002017; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 00:34:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 00:34:23 +0100 From: Polytropon To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! Subject: Re: tcsh issue Message-Id: <20151204003423.6e95c19b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <56605CE0.4010105@hiwaay.net> References: <56605CE0.4010105@hiwaay.net> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 23:40:14 -0000 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, ...