Please note that this application is in a development stage.
I’m just adding this README, so github will stop complaining to me.
This application will read in a tcsh script and try to output the bash equivalent.
Tcsh, an improvement on the C shell, is generally chosen as a default shell for many environments
because of how it mimics the C language. However, there are many ambiguities and limitations
with the language. Additionally, documentation on the language is sparse compared to bash.
This application is developed for people trying to migrate from tcsh to bash such as converting
a cshrc to bashrc or for people who want to support bash on a tcsh driven system.
Ruby 1.9.2 (older versions probably work, this is just the one I use)
RubyGems
I recommend installing both with rvm
Additionally, you will need the following gems
treetop 1.4.8
trollop 1.16.2
Inside the bin directory is an executable called “tcsh2bash”.
Run it as follows
- Output to standard out:
./tcsh2bash --infile cshrc - Output to a file:
./tcsh2bash --infile cshrc --outfile bashrc
Input
alias hello goodbye setenv editor vim set p=d q243aca 0w3
Output
alias hello=goodbye export editor=vim p=d ####################### # Unable to parse: q243aca 0w3 #######################
There are no guarantees that the bash output produces the same logic as the tcsh script so please
review the changes especially if using this in a production environment.
Also, this application is not a mind reader. If you feed it a malformed tcsh script,
it doesn’t make any “logical” guess at what you meant.