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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Globbing
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Date: 5 Mar 91 01:56:27 GMT
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In article <X.U9MZ7@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> 	Tell me how I invoke multiple programs at once with the same
>> argument list.
>
>for i in prog1 prog2 ...; do $i arg list; done

	Like I said, you have to put it in a variable first (and in this case
is generated by a command ("for"), which would do the globbing before 
stuffing the variable).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Like a swift-flowing river
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