Geoffrey Duke wrote:
>
> If you are determined to use tcsh for
> this (and other) scripts, I may still have an old O'Reilly
> book on Csh and Tcsh that you may borrow indefinitely.
>
>   

Bailey-Howe also has this old classic that might help you if you're
sticking with csh/tcsh:

The UNIX */C/* */shell/* */field/* */guide/* / Gail Anderson, Paul Anderson
QA76.76 .O63 A53 1986 (not charged)

I don't shell script very much at all, and the Anderson book has been
a helpful reference.

> If you haven't worked with Perl yet, current wisdom is that
> you might do better to start with Python instead.
>   

As a very infrequent programmer, I've gone that route (mainly because ArcGIS
now makes use of Python), and I'm amazed at how elegantly simple Python
looks in comparison with Perl.

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