'c' shell scripts
Greg Woods
woods at hao.UUCP
Fri Dec 16 01:00:06 AEST 1983
The construct
set x=`cat file`
works quite well. In fact, the shell will parse newlines just like blanks.
So if your file contains a list of other files, that looks like
file1
file2
....
then $x expands to "file1 file2 ....". More usually, I use something like
foreach f (`cat file`)
....
end
It should be pointed out that this does have limitations. It works fine
as long as the file in question isn't too long. Otherwise you get an
"Out of memory" diagnostic.
Greg "C-shell hacker" Woods
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