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Old 05-07-2006
looping for each file

HI
I want to execute the awk command for each file which is of form *.event
I am trying the following code but it is not working ,
#! /bin/csh
set h= *.event
foreach h(*)
set v= `awk -F, 'NR==2 {print $1}' $h`
echo $v
end
But I am getting an error
Can somebody correct me
Thanks arif
# 2  
Old 05-08-2006
this may work

Quote:
for i in *.event
do
v=`awk -F, 'NR==2 {print $1}' $i`
done
if still face some problem post back output of your script with set -x enabled
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