On 26 April 2018 at 17:48, Benjamin Purcell <benjapurc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since no one had any idea what you had in mind, here is stab in the > dark. Did you want > > % for(i in `{echo $w}) {echo $i; echo XXX}
Yes. That was it. But basically this was already given in Teodoro Santoni's e-mail. > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Alexander Kapshuk > <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You could initialise $w to hold a list of files output by ls like so: >> % w=`{ls} >> % echo $#w >> 40 >> >> Is this what you had in mind? I am puzzled now. I actually did not get Alexander Kapshuk's e-mail, it was not delivered to my gmail account. (But it is present at https://marc.info/?l=9fans&r=1&b=201804&w=2 ). (And it seems you might have not received Santoni's e-mail.) I don't know what's happening here. Thanks Ruda