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hi,

is there any way that i can eval the following -

eval abc.csv=def.csv


i am getting the - bash: command not found error.

eval is a no-op in this case. if you "eval abc.csv=def.csv", you will just get "abc.csv=def.csv". so far, so good. so yes you can eval that. but then you need to execute the command "abc.csv=def.csv". "abc=def" would have worked because abc is a valid name for a variable. but abc.csv is not a variable name. so the shell tries to find a command called "abc.csv=def.csv". if it had found such a command, it would run it. but you don't have a command by that name. what did expect to do with this statement?

i am trying to rename the files.

that is just:
mv abc.csv def.csv