From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA02445 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 04:10:06 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA09494; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 14:12:10 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 14:12:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 13:06:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Tom Kaczmarski To: dpd@asan.com cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Unable to process a for loop as expected?? In-Reply-To: <17552567901167@asan.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <"-iXml2.0.GK2.vpr5o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2023 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Sun, 18 Aug 1996 dpd@asan.com 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 ? ''~`` ( o o ) +----------------------------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.------------------------+ mailto:tkaczma@luc.edu http://orion.it.luc.edu/~tkaczma .oooO (312) 512-7302 ( ) Oooo. +-------------------------------------\ (----( )--------------------------+ \_) ) / (_/