On Tue, 5 Jul 2022, Brook Milligan wrote:
Below is a small Makefile. Its intent is for the loops to have three iterations (a, b, and c) by separating ${X} on the colons.
:ts won't produce new words without a whitespace there.
This do the job?
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# Makefile
X= hello world:embedded tab:xxx
Z= ${X:Q}
Y= ${Z:S/:/ /g}
all:
@echo "Y=${Y}"
@echo "make .for loop:"
.for f in ${Y}
@echo "===> ${f}"
.endfor
@echo "shell for loop:"
for f in ${Y}; do echo "===> $${f}"; done
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-RVP
