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From: mbt@bridge2.3Com.Com (Brad Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: csh weirdness
Keywords: foreach end ; ls
Message-ID: <315@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 8 Feb 89 23:20:34 GMT
Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA
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Something strange happened to me today while renameing some files
and I can't explain it so maybe some of you can. Here goes

I had 10 files named zoo-1 zoo-2 zoo-3 .... zoo-08 zoo-09 zoo-10
and I wanted to rename them so that a shell expansion of zoo* would
have them aplhabetized so I did the following:

% foreach i ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 )
> mv zoo-$i zoo-0$i
> end;ls
> end

When the loop was executed it did the first mv then an ls of my current
directory, then the second mv and another ls..... after the last ls
I got the following "end: Not in while/foreach." I was under the impression
that above would execute the loop, then execute an ls. I had no intention
of putting in the last end statement, but when the shell gave me the
secondary prompt after I had already entered "end;ls" If figured what the
hell and entered the second end. What caused this?

-brad-

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