Re: Loops and scripting in eshell

[Reiner Steib]

On Sun, Oct 19 2003, Oliver Scholz wrote:

> for i in `ls` do ...

Useless use of ls. ;-)  for i in *; do something; done

> 2. Where can I get (comprehensive) documentation for the sh (bourne?)
>    command syntax?

man sh ash bash ksh sh-posix  ;-)
(Or maybe I don't understand the question?)

- Online man pages:
  http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sh++NetBSD-current
  http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sh

- "Shell Command Language Index"
  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/shellix.html
- "For Loop" therein:
  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html#tag_001_009_004_002

- http://www.unix-systems.org/whitepapers/shdiffs.html

- "The Traditional Bourne Shell Family"
  http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/
- "Various system shells"
  http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shells/

HTH.

Bye, Reiner.
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