ms361@leah.Albany.Edu (Mark Steinberger) (12/22/89)
There have been a couple of programs that have come out recently which will execute commands to a number of files specified via wild cards. This is of course a really nice feature. It would also be useful to have loops available for ARP shell scripts which would loop through the contents of a set (which could be specified by something like $(type <file>)), and assign the members of the set sequentially to a shell variable. That way loops could be used to generate files, not just to process preexisting ones. Would such a program be exceptionally difficult? --Mark P.S. I know that this can be accomplished using pipes and the ARP Read program, but that usage often requires multiple files for the script and can get cumbersome.