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Old 08-11-2006
foreach in shell scripting

I need to read list of machines from a file using foreach loop.
I am trying the follwing, but its not reading the list

foreach i (`cat file.lst | awk '{print $1}'`)
ls -l | grep $i
end

here the file file.lst contains list of files

Any idea whats wrong here
Thanks
Krisyet
# 2  
Old 08-11-2006
Code:
ls -l | grep -f file.lst

Does what you want without a for loop
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Old 08-11-2006
I need to run some command on the out put of each machine
like ping
 
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