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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers foreach loop in csh Post 302620921 by ymc1g11 on Monday 9th of April 2012 01:49:33 PM
Old 04-09-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by xbin
Code:
foreach x ( * )
echo $x
end

or

foreach x ( `ls` )
echo $x
end

xbin, thanks for the help. but when i tried each of them they only printed out some of the files in the current directory (yet `ls` and * gave different result Smilie ), it didnt give me the result as i was using ls .. ?

---------- Post updated at 06:43 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:39 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit_Chopra
Hi,

May i know where u have defined/mentioned the directory where u want to do/run ls.


foreach x ( ls )
echo $x
end
i wrote the loop in a csh script, with #!/bin/csh and run it on bash

---------- Post updated at 06:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:43 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by ymc1g11
xbin, thanks for the help. but when i tried each of them they only printed out some of the files in the current directory (yet `ls` and * gave different result Smilie ), it didnt give me the result as i was using ls .. ?

---------- Post updated at 06:43 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:39 PM ----------



i wrote the loop in a csh script, with #!/bin/csh and run it on bash
now it works fine. Thanks to both! Smilie
 

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