Re: Unable to process a for loop as expected??

[Tom Kaczmarski <tkaczma@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 18 Aug 1996 dpd@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> -------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/zsh
> 
> list="a b c d"
> 
> for character in $list
> do
>    echo "Character is $character"
> done
> --------------------------------------------------------------

2 quick solutions

1) use "for character in a b c d e f g"

2) use "for character in `echo $list`

For some reason zsh seems to think that you're passing it only one 
argument to the for statement.

Tom


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