Question

im trying to set the environment path to run pintos command like this in my home floder under ubuntu

set path = ($path /home/pintos/src/utils)

and I type terminal command try to compile this

:~$ source .tcshrc 

but it seems get error like this

 bash: .tcshrc: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
 bash: .tcshrc: line 1: `set path = ($path /home/pintos/src/utils)'

I dont know where is the syntax error is …

Answer 1

You source your script, which is perfectly valid for [t]csh, into your running shell, which happens to be bash (and not tcsh).

If you’re going to use tcsh, just run it (by typing tcsh) and ensure that your ~/.tcshrc has the desired effect. (Then, maybe, use chsh to change your login shell).

If you’re going to use bash, set path using PATH=$PATH:/home/pintos/src/utils, in ~/.bashrc and/or in ~/.bash_profile.