Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:05:44 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Jim Bentley <jimbo@intcomm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh scripting Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970122170128.4605D-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <199701230036.SAA01696@main.intcomm.net>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Jim Bentley wrote: > When attempting to execute a foreach command in csh script the variables are > not set correctly. Number 1, don't script in csh. Every Unix seems to have its own set of csh bugs which are incompatable. Use sh, ksh , perl, tcl ..... :) > foreach user (cat /usr/local/www/file.lst) > > The user variable is set equal to "cat /usr/local/www/file.lst" instead of > the the data in the lines of the file. Actually $user gets set to "cat" and later to "/usr/local/www/file.lst" You need to surround the command with back ticks to have it executed. foreach user (`cat /usr/local/www/file.lst`) does what you want. But don't do it, use sh, ksh perl ..... Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
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