From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:39:52 -0800
From: Tom Duff td@pixar.com
Subject: [9fans] RC shell
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On Nov 26, 10:36am, Russ Cox wrote:
> Subject: re: [9fans] RC shell
> #!/bin/sh
> TESTS=full.test
>
> cat $TESTS |
> while(TESTLINE=`{read}) {
> 	...
> }

I would write

#!/bin/rc
TESTS=full.test
ifs='
'		# newline only
for(TESTLINE in `{cat $TESTS}){
	...
}

but what do I know?

-- 
Tom Duff.  I hate quotations. -Ralph Waldo Emerson