Linux in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

Name

foreach

Synopsis

                  foreach 
                  name 
                  (
                  wordlist
                  )    
                  commands
                  end
               

Assign variable name to each value in wordlist and execute commands between foreach and end. You can use foreach as a multiline command issued at the shell prompt (first of the following examples), or you can use it in a shell script (second example).

Examples

Rename all files that begin with a capital letter:

% foreach i ([A-Z]*)
? mv $i $i.new
? end

Check whether each command-line argument is an option or not:

                  foreach arg ($argv)
                     # does it begin with - ?
                     if ("$arg" =~ -*) then
                        echo "Argument is an option"
                     else
                        echo "Argument is a filename"
                     endif
                  end