Bad : modifier in $ (/)

[Captain_Quark]

I am shell scripting in C-shell and I get the message:

Bad : modifier in $ (/)

The only slashes (/) I have in the script is at the start of the script, i.e: #!/bin/csh

How can I make it work??

[atreyu]

Hello and welcome!

I have moved your post to the Programming/Scripting forum, where it will hopefully get better attention.

[atreyu]

Bad : modifier in $ (/)

It is possible that you have a variable butting up against another character, maybe a colon? it is hard to say without seeing your code. but this will yield a similar error:

#!/bin/csh
setenv dir '/tmp'
echo $dir:a

when i run the above i get:

Bad : modifier in $ ( ).

but if i enclose the variable in curly braces, e.g.:

echo ${dir}:a

then all is well:

/tmp:a

if this does not help, can you post your whole script?