hello, I am very new to Unix and I am working on a very hard assignment. I cannot figure out what the problem is ! I am working on a menu, a user should choose from, 5 options, but i am geting the error Command not found (script does have the x permission) Also I am not sure if i have the menu optoins set up correctly. Could someone please help me? I am in a state of panic THanks ! Molly #!bin/csh # This menu will allow user to select from a menu of options, and then perform the # selected command. User can use options until he chooses to exit while : do clear echo ***** Select from menu ***** echo "[1] List all files in the current directory" echo "[2] Display today's date and time" echo "[3] Display whether a file is just a file, or if it is a directory" echo "[4] Create a back up file" echo "[5] Exit the menu" echo -n "Select your choice {1-5}:" read yourch case $yourch in 1) echo "These are your files: "; ls -l; echo "Press Enter"; read;; 2) echo "Today is 'date', time is 'time'; echo "Press Enter"; read;; 3) echo "Is the file a file or a directory?"; -a $1; echo "File is a file, not a directory"; read;; 4) echo "Create a backfile"; mv $; echo "Press Enter"; read;; 5) exit 0 ;;

The unix commands you were trying to implement were incomplete or I couldn't identify what you were doing. This at least gets the main menu working. You can probably change it from there: #!/bin/csh while : do echo ***** Select from menu ***** echo "[1] List all files in the current directory" echo "[2] Display today's date and time" echo "[3] Display whether a file is just a file, or if it is a directory" echo "[4] Create a back up file" echo "[5] Exit the menu" echo -n "Select your choice {1-5}:" read yourch case $yourch in 1) echo "These are your files: "; ls -l; echo "Press Enter"; read x;; 2) echo "Today is 'date', time is 'time'"; echo "Press Enter"; read x;; 3) echo "Is the file a file or a directory?"; echo "File is a file, not a directory"; read x;; 4) echo "Create a backfile"; echo "Press Enter"; read x;; 5) exit 0 ;; *) exit 0;; esac done

Thanks ! I tried to correct it but still getting "Command not found" What this should is to allow user to select from a menu of 5 tasks and perform the selected task repeatedly until the user chooses to quit. The 3rd choice should tell the user whether the selected file is a file or a directory. This is what i have right now. Its still not working #!bin/csh # This menu will allow user to select from a menu of options, and then perform the # selected command. User can use options until he chooses to exit while : do echo ***** Select from menu ***** echo "[1] List all files in the current directory" echo "[2] Display today's date and time" echo "[3] Display whether a file is just a file, or if it is a directory" echo "[4] Create a back up file" echo "[5] Exit the menu" echo -n "Select your choice {1-5}:" read yourch case $yourch in 1) echo "These are your files: "; ls -l; echo "Press Enter"; read x;; 2) echo "Today is 'date', time is 'time'"; echo "Press Enter"; read x;; 3) echo "Is the file a file or a directory?"; echo "File is a file, not a directory"; read x;; 4) echo "Create a backfile"; echo "Press Enter"; read x;; 5) exit 0 ;; *) exit 0;; esac done

As I said, I'm not much of a csh scripter. I can tell you excuting: ls -ld <filename> gives: if it's a directory, the first character is a "d' if it's a file, the first character is a "-" This code snippet gets the first character into variable my char: #!/usr/bin/csh set mychar=`ls -ld mydir|cut -c 1` echo $mychar

morava, look at your first line #!bin/bash and look at nails first line #!/bin/bash can you see the difference. Hope that helps Ravey Dave.

Hey Ravey Dave! Good catch! You have a good eye.