Reading a file from withing a C-shell script

David I. Berg dberg at informix.com
Fri Nov 16 07:38:04 AEST 1990


In article <2945 at uc.msc.umn.edu> wes at msc.edu writes:
>Suppose one has a file containing names of other files .......
>..........
>From a C-shell script, I would like to, one-by-one, get the names out
>of this data file and do something with them like this:
>
>............
>foreach file (my_file_list)
>   echo $file
>   process $file
>end
>
>Does anyone know how I do that?

foreach file (`cat my_file_list`)
   echo $file
   process $file
end



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