Name
foreach
Synopsis
foreachname
(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]*)
foreach?mv $i $i.old
foreach?end
Check whether each command-line argument is an option or not:
foreach arg ($argv) # does it begin with - ? if ("$arg" =~ -*) then echo "Argument is an option" else echo "Argument is a filename" endif end
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