[SOLVED] bash syntax to translate from csh scripts ..

[mahuro]

Hi All,

U hiope you can be able to help me.

I am setting some environmental variable in my .bashrc , the sample code I was provided with is for CSH but I am using bash, and there are some syntax differences between them ... I got most of the script to work, but I am getting an error at this part :

if ($RMSTREE == $RMANTREE) then
     set path=($path $RMANTREE/bin)
 else
     set path=($path $RMSTREE/bin $RMANTREE/bin)
 endif

the error is:

bash: /home/renderuser/.bashrc: line 40: syntax error near unexpected token `('
bash: /home/renderuser/.bashrc: line 40: `     set path=($path $RMANTREE/bin)'

The way to set environmental variables is different between chs and bash, so while csh uses setenv, in bash we use export.

My guess is that the compound command in brackets has to be expressed differently to work in bash ... does anyone knows how should I translate that ???


Many thanks fro your help.

Mahuro

[Manko10]

if [ $RMSTREE == $RMANTREE ]; then
    export path="$path $RMSTREE"
else
    export path="$path $RMSTREE/bin $RMANTREE/bin"
fi

But I guess, you want to set the $PATH environment variable. In this case you have to captialize the variable name ($PATH instead of $path) and separate the values by colons ("foo:bar" instead of "foo bar").
So the code would be this:

if [ $RMSTREE == $RMANTREE ]; then
    export PATH="$PATH:$RMSTREE"
else
    export PATH="$PATH:$RMSTREE/bin:$RMANTREE/bin"
fi

[mahuro]

Hi Manko,

Many thanks that worked !!