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From: srg@quick.COM (Spencer Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: csh problem involving nested ifs?
Message-ID: <3171@quick.COM>
Date: 16 Jul 89 06:58:37 GMT
References: <20243@adm.BRL.MIL> <5016@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: Quicksilver Engineering, Seattle
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In article <5016@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

-> generate_a_list_of_file_names |
->   while read FNAME
->   do
->     do_something_with FNAME
->   done
-> 
-> is second nature. And it's impossible in csh without massive inconvenience.
-> By comparison, having TEST and EXPR builtin is a minor optimisation.

What are you talking about?  It's easy and much more natural under csh.

foreach fname (`generate_a_list_of_file_names`)
	do_something_with_fname
end