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From: white@white.cs.unc.edu (Brian T. White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Some csh how-to, please
Keywords: csh C-shell shell programming unix read
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Date: 28 Mar 89 17:23:27 GMT
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In article <2127@pikes.Colorado.EDU>, pklammer@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Peter Klammer) writes:
> Could someone please tell me how to read a file line at a time
> into the C shell?  Better yet, can you refer me to any good C-shell
> text.  

Try "The UNIX C Shell Field Guide" by Anderson and Anderson.  To read
a file one line at a time, try

foreach p ( "`cat file`" )
	set line=`echo $p`
	(commands acting on $line)
end