Ambiguous error in script to rename a file

[olmos]

I need to get everything between two words then put
that in a file renamed with the original filenameand "-body" and the end of it . file1-body
I keep on getting $file-body: Ambiguous error.

What am I doing wrong?

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#!/bin/csh -f

foreach file ('cat ./filelist')

sed -n '/NET/,/TEST/p' $file > $file-body

end
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Thanks,
olmos

 

[SamBones]

Try [tt]${file}[/tt] instead of [tt]$file[/tt]. The braces eliminate the ambiguity.

I don't know C-shell, but in other shells this would help.

Hope this helps.

 

[Mike042]

It looks like you are re-directing the output of the sed -n . . . command to the contents of a variable called file-body. Has that variable been previously defined ?
Additionally you are creating a new file each time you go round the loop. If you want to append the output then use >> instead of > .

I hope that helps. Please feel free to re-post further questions.

Mike