Question

coming from bash shell, I missed on an easy rolling of loops (for i in (…); do … done;)

Would you post typical one-liners of loops in cshell?

ONE LINERS PLEASE, and not multiple-lines
thx

Answer 1

Wow, I haven’t written a csh script in years. But Bill Joy did write it himself, I suppose it’s worth some nostalgia effort…

set t=(*)
foreach i ($t)
  echo $i >> /tmp/z
end

or just foreach i (*)

This loop structure works well with a built-in concept that csh has of a word list. This is sort-of present in bash but not in vanilla posix shells.

set q=(how now brown cow)
echo $q[2]

The foreach loop neatly iterates through this data structure.