Re: variable modifier within a for loop - How?

[Shawn Honess]

At 09:26 PM 1/27/2005, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> You can't use make functions to operate on shell variables, of course!

Thanks mate!  I knew that, but after fighting with it for so long, I'd
gotten myself confused.

> You have to use shell operations with shell variables; try something
> like this:
>
>      SRC = ./one/foo.c ./two/bar.c
>      target:
>         for file in $(SRC) ; do \
>           $(HACK) < $$file > ./log/`basename $$file`.log; \
>         done

Excellent!  That's what I'm doing now.

I had tried this, but lost the semicolon just before the "done"
and in my confusion didn't figure it out.  Only when you told me
how, you got me to look at it again.  Thank you very much!

Thanks!
Cheers!

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