On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 11:43, Richard Miller wrote: > Can someone help me with the syntax of a FOR command in the tsch shell > (I am on Mac OS X). I remember being able to use a FOR statement in > DOS to execute the same command on every file in a directory, like this:
Mac OS X has switched to Bash with 10.3 Bash is a much better shell, here's how to do what you want in Bash: for FILE in * do some_action $FILE done Alternatively, in both bash or tcsh, you could use find. What you want to do decides the best way to do it. -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> #define FALSE 0 /* This is the naked Truth */ #define TRUE 1 /* and this is the Light */ -- mailto.c
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