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From: ms361@leah.Albany.Edu (Mark Steinberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: a programming request
Keywords: loops
Message-ID: <2349@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 21 Dec 89 18:43:09 GMT
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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There have been a couple of programs that have come out
recently which will execute commands to a number of files
specified via wild cards. This is of course a really nice
feature.

It would also be useful to have loops available for
ARP shell scripts which would loop through the contents
of a set (which could be specified by something like $(type <file>)),
and assign the members of the set sequentially to a shell variable.
That way loops could be used to generate files, not just to process
preexisting ones.

Would such a program be exceptionally difficult?

--Mark

P.S. I know that this can be accomplished using pipes and the ARP
Read program, but that usage often requires multiple files for the
script and can get cumbersome.