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Old 04-09-2012
foreach loop in csh

Hi everyone I'm new to unix and encountered a small problem i couldnt find out a reason why it doesn't work..please help..

in my csh script when i tried to use the foreach loop like this:

Code:
foreach x ( ls )
  echo $x
end

when i tried to run it, it printed out 'ls' to the std out instead of the list of directories in the current directories.

any helpp??

Last edited by Franklin52; 04-10-2012 at 08:37 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
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Old 04-09-2012
Code:
foreach x ( * )
echo $x
end

or

foreach x ( `ls` )
echo $x
end

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Old 04-09-2012
foreach loop in csh

Hi,

May i know where u have defined/mentioned the directory where u want to do/run ls.
Code:
foreach x ( ls )
  echo $x
end


Last edited by Franklin52; 04-10-2012 at 08:37 AM..
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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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