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From: chris@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Delayed evaluation of csh variables?
Message-ID: <CHRIS.90Dec10160308@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 10 Dec 90 21:03:08 GMT
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Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Greenbelt, MD
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I'm trying to do a script where I set up a variable to contain a template,
then later instantiate one of the variables; the whole thing then is passed
to a command. Something like this, conceptually:

#!/bin/csh
set COMMAND = "command"
set OPTION_TEMPLATE = "-Z '$File'"	# Want *literal* $File
					#   -- to be evaluated *later* --
					#   but csh evaluates it now and dies
foreach File ( $* )			# Instantiate in $OPTION_TEMPLATE ??
	$COMMAND $OPTION_TEMPLATE	# doesn't work
end


Is there a way to do this? 

Thanks in advance.
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