'foreach' help needed

[Wolf N. Paul]

In article <5639 at sgistl.SGI.COM> larry at sgistl.SGI.COM (Larry Autry) writes:
>I would like some advice on what the syntax should be for 'foreach'. I
>already know it's use but I haven't seen any examples in documentation.

I assume you mean the CSH construct equivalent to SH/KSH "for var in list do".

Here is the syntax:

foreach varname ( list )
	command $varname
	...
end

Here is an example:

foreach file ( *.c )
	mv $file $file.orig
end

Main differences from sh/ksh:  parentheses around list, no "do/done", 
terminate with "end".

Bugs:  I've worked with versions of csh where the parentheses needed to 
be surrounded by whitespace -- i.e. it has to be " ( *.c ) " rather than
"(*.c)".
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