Csh & foreach causing fork problems

[Howard Chu]

In article <1991Mar24.201730.14808 at aucs.AcadiaU.ca> 880274d at aucs.acadiau.ca (Ralph Doncaster) writes:
>I'm having problems with a script I made to mail all the students on our
>system.   I often get a "fork: no more processes" error.
>I assume this is because foreach starts a new process for each argument it is
>given.
>How can I solve this problem?
>Here is the script:
>
>#!/bin/csh
># bm (batch mailer) by Ralph Doncaster, Jan 25/91
># script to mail message to all accounts in /u/student
># usage: bm subject file
>if ($#argv) then
>	foreach i(`/bin/ls /u/student`)
>		mail -s $1 $i < $2
>		sleep 1
>	end
>	echo "Sending message file " $1 "to all accounts in /u/student."
>else
>	echo "Usage: bm subject file"
>endif

I'd replace this with an alias, something like:
	alias bm '(cd /u/student; set list=(*); mail -s \!:1 $list < \!:2)'

Note that in any case, you must quote the subject that you specify if it's
going to be more than 1 word.
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