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From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Reading a file from withing a C-shell script
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.142750.27306@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 15 Nov 90 14:27:50 GMT
References: <2945@uc.msc.umn.edu>
Reply-To: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Organization: Environment Canada
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In article <2945@uc.msc.umn.edu> wes@msc.edu writes:
>Suppose one has a file containing names of other files like this:
>
>data.0001.rle
>data.0020.rle
>data.0025.rle
>data.0085.rle
>
>From a C-shell script, I would like to, one-by-one, get the names out
>of this data file and do something with them like this:
>
>#!/bin/csh -f
>#
>#
>foreach file (my_file_list)
>   echo $file
>   process $file
>end
>
>Does anyone know how I do that?

where $1 is the name of your list file 
in the scipt call:

#!/bin/csh -f
#
#
foreach file (`cat $1`)
   echo $file
   process $file
 end

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