Reading a file from withing a C-shell script

[Patrick Hertel]

In article <2945 at uc.msc.umn.edu> wes at msc.edu writes:
>Suppose one has a file containing names of other files like this:
>
>data.0001.rle
>data.0020.rle
>data.0025.rle
>data.0085.rle
>
>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:
>
>#!/bin/csh -f
>#
>#
>foreach file (my_file_list)
>   echo $file
>   process $file
>end
>
>Does anyone know how I do that?

where $1 is the name of your list file 
in the scipt call:

#!/bin/csh -f
#
#
foreach file (`cat $1`)
   echo $file
   process $file
 end

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