Line at a time scripts in csh
Maarten Litmaath
maart at cs.vu.nl
Sat Jan 14 22:38:52 AEST 1989
posert at bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Bob Posert) writes:
\I have a file with two words on each line, and want to
\process them in a shell script, but can't figure out
\how to get *the entire line* into a variable.
\I tried:
\ foreach i (`cat file`)
\ #misc processing
\ end
\but i was set to each word, not line.
foreach i ("`cat file`") # create 1 string
..."$i"... # avoid * and friends getting expanded
end
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