From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 6 06:36:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17450 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 06:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17445 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 06:36:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.02 #26) id 0zFetf-0002Rd-00; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 14:30:27 +0100 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 14:30:27 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: A M Bein , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: for: command not found Message-ID: <19980906143027.A9069@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A M Bein wrote: > 4. for i in *; do [enter] > > In responce I get the messages: > > for: Command not found > do: Command not found What shell are you using? If you are using csh, RTFM, The syntax is different. Otherwise just type sh for i in *; do to run the command in sh. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message