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From: dberg@cod.NOSC.MIL (David I. Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Line at a time scripts in csh
Message-ID: <1371@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 23 Jan 89 17:58:33 GMT
References: <4116@paris.ics.uci.edu> <909@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <909@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, geoff@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
> In article <4116@paris.ics.uci.edu> posert@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Bob Posert) writes:

> >	foreach i (`cat file`)
> >	#misc processing
> >	end
> >but i was set to each word, not line.

When I encountered the same problem I used an oscillating soft switch to
keep track of which word to which I was was pointing.  It's a kludge, but
it works.

> However, when I tried this just now, I realised that if there are any wild 
> cards (?,*,[,]) then it gives the strange error message "end: No match"

Set the environment variable "nonomatch" to eliminate no matches.

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