Cshell question: taking wordlists as a single string

[Peter da Silva]

In article <3251 at syma.sussex.ac.uk>, andy at syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:
> I have a Csh script called "whatnews" ...

>       foreach i ($*)

> Basically, then, can Cshell cope with word-lists as single arguments, or
> must I write a C program to do the job (or try sh or ksh?)

Try sh (not ksh, unless you don't care about portability: sh is more
universally available). By and large, csh is a poor language for writing
programs in. Sh is much better.

for i
do
	...
done

This will properly handle your quoted args.
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