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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Line at a time scripts in csh
Message-ID: <1902@koto.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 14 Jan 89 12:38:52 GMT
References: <4116@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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posert@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Bob Posert) writes:
\I have a file with two words on each line, and want to
\process them in a shell script, but can't figure out
\how to get *the entire line* into a variable.
\I tried:
\	foreach i (`cat file`)
\	#misc processing
\	end
\but i was set to each word, not line.

foreach i ("`cat file`")	# create 1 string
	..."$i"...		# avoid * and friends getting expanded
end
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