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From: dberg@informix.com (David I. Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Reading a file from withing a C-shell script
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Date: 15 Nov 90 20:38:04 GMT
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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 .......
>..........
>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:
>
>............
>foreach file (my_file_list)
>   echo $file
>   process $file
>end
>
>Does anyone know how I do that?

foreach file (`cat my_file_list`)
   echo $file
   process $file
end