csh problem involving nested ifs?
Spencer Garrett
srg at quick.COM
Sun Jul 16 16:58:37 AEST 1989
In article <5016 at ficc.uu.net>, peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
-> generate_a_list_of_file_names |
-> while read FNAME
-> do
-> do_something_with FNAME
-> done
->
-> is second nature. And it's impossible in csh without massive inconvenience.
-> By comparison, having TEST and EXPR builtin is a minor optimisation.
What are you talking about? It's easy and much more natural under csh.
foreach fname (`generate_a_list_of_file_names`)
do_something_with_fname
end
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