On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Toomas Aas wrote:
# for luser in 'joe peter bill' { tar cf - -C /home $luser | tar xf - }
... but I keep getting error messages that luser is undefined.
What am I doing wrong?
In csh, it's "foreach", like this (tested):
foreach luser (joe peter bill) echo $luser end
The csh man page says: "Both foreach and end must appear alone on separate lines."
But you should not use csh for scripting[1]. Instead, stick to standard sh (tested):
for luser in joe bill ted; do echo $luser; done
But that's ugly. Unless there's a good reason to stick with shell scripts, consider using Perl or Python[2] from the start.
[1] Google for it.
[2] I'd lean towards Python currently. Shame about the string
interpolation, though.-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
