[ale] Question about how to do something from bash to csh.

[Chuck Payne]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 22:42 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> I have never worked in csh. Something that I do all the time bash, I
>> have no clue do in csh...
>
> OMG it's been ages since I've even looked at csh.  Not even sure WHY
> anyone would need to do this in csh, but...
>
>> Here is my bash one liner.
>
>> for i in `cat deadmail` : do postsuper -d $i ; postfix reload ; done ;
>>
>>
>> Can someone show me how to do that in csh, I know that you are to use
>> foreach, but get it Illegal variable name.
>
>> Here what I have tried on my own...
>
>> foreach i $(cat deadmail) postsuper -d $ end
>
> First...  It can't be on one line.  According to the man page "Both
> foreach and end must appear alone on separate lines."  You also don't
> want to be doing the $() notation for execution.  Use backticks.  Then
> the word list must be contained in parens.
>
> This should work:
>
> foreach i (`cat deadmail`)
> postsuper -d $i
> end
>
>> sorry for a nood question on csh
>
>
>
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Didn't work. I am getting this error...

#!/bin/csh

foreach i(`cat deadletters`)
/usr/local/sbin/postsuper -d $i

test: 3: Syntax error: "(" unexpected


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