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From: dberg@cod.UUCP (David I. Berg)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: zero-trip foreach loops
Message-ID: <188@cod.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 18:07:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: cod.188
Posted: Tue Oct 21 18:07:47 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Oct-86 22:17:04 EDT
References: <2494@utai.UUCP>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <2494@utai.UUCP>, lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
> 
> Is there an easy way to have csh foreach loops that don't complain if the
> pattern given does not match any file...., 
> 

You might try:

touch dummy.tfm
foreach font (*.tfm)
    if $font = "dummy.dfm" continue
    set fontname = `basename $font .tfm`
    foreach size ($fontname.*pxl)
    ...
    end
end
rm dummy.tfm

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David I. Berg (dberg)
Advanced Technology, Inc.
San Diego, CA

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