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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Cshell question: taking wordlists as a single string
Message-ID: <OL95_B2@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 15:15:51 GMT
References: <3251@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
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In article <3251@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:
> I have a Csh script called "whatnews" ...

>       foreach i ($*)

> Basically, then, can Cshell cope with word-lists as single arguments, or
> must I write a C program to do the job (or try sh or ksh?)

Try sh (not ksh, unless you don't care about portability: sh is more
universally available). By and large, csh is a poor language for writing
programs in. Sh is much better.

for i
do
	...
done

This will properly handle your quoted args.
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