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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ncar!music.scd.ucar.edu!tparker
  3. From: tparker@music.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker)
  4. Subject: Re: csh foreach question
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug14.145453.6052@ncar.ucar.edu>
  6. Keywords: csh,foreach
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  8. Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
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  10. Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:54:53 GMT
  11. Lines: 29
  12.  
  13. gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
  14.  
  15. > 
  16. >     Given the following script:
  17. > #
  18. > foreach line ( `cat this_script` )
  19. >   echo "$line"
  20. > end
  21. > 
  22. >     I would expect the output to be:
  23. > 
  24. > #
  25. > foreach line ( `cat this_script` )
  26. >   echo "$line"
  27. > end
  28. > 
  29. >     Is this what's supposed to happen?  Any help appreciated.
  30.  
  31. John,
  32.  
  33. I got somewhat better results by using double quotes, as follows:
  34.  
  35.      foreach line ("`cat this_script`")
  36.                    ^                 ^
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  39. | Tom Parker             |  National Center for Atmospheric Research |
  40. | tparker@ncar.ucar.edu  |  (303) 497-1227                           |
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