C shell question about foreach

[Greg Hunt]

In article <11842 at hub.ucsb.edu>, 6600bori at ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin) writes:
> I'm trying to write a csh script that will execute a series of commands for
> every directory that exists in /home/pluto.  This script works if I execute
> it while I'm logged in, but it gives me a
> 
> 	syntax error at line 7: `(' unexpected
> 
> when I try to run it from crontab.  I'd appreciate any help I can get! 
> Here's the code:
> 
> --------
> #
> 
> set people = `ls /home/pluto`
> 
> foreach person($people[*])
>   echo $person >> /tmp/test.txt
> end

Boris, I believe the problem is that scripts run via crontab are
executed by sh by default instead of csh.  You need to force the script
to be executed by the csh by adding:

    #!/bin/csh

as the first line of the script, assuming that your system recognizes
this convention.  Otherwise, you'll need to rewrite the script in sh
instead of csh.

Also, I don't think the [*] after $people is doing any good.  $people
is already a space separated list of words, and all the [*] says is
to take all words.  I think just $people will work equally as well.
At least it does on my system with your example.

Enjoy!

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