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From: pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Paul Purdom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Gulam question
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Date: 6 Sep 90 15:08:22 GMT
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In gulam the foreach command can be used to do something for each file
in a directory. The if command can be used to test whether the file is
a regular file a directory, etc. Is there some way to test what the
extension on a file is? I don't see how to do this from reading the manual,
but maybe I have overlooked something.

The following (except for syntax errors) suggests what I would like to do

foreach ...\i { * }
  if $i.arc
    arc -l $i
  ef
    echo $i
  endif
endfor

With a valid test for the arc extension, this file would produce a listing
of the contents of all arc files and the name of all other files.

(Note, it is easy to do half the job: foreach ...\i {*.arc} will get
all the arc files; the hard thing is to dget the non arc ones.)