Some csh how-to, please

[Gregory Bollella]

In article <7467 at thorin.cs.unc.edu> white at white.cs.unc.edu (Brian T. White) writes:
>In article <2127 at pikes.Colorado.EDU>, pklammer at pikes.Colorado.EDU (Peter Klammer) writes:
>> Could someone please tell me how to read a file line at a time
>> into the C shell?  Better yet, can you refer me to any good C-shell
>> text.  
>
>Try "The UNIX C Shell Field Guide" by Anderson and Anderson.  To read
>a file one line at a time, try
>
>foreach p ( "`cat file`" )
>	set line=`echo $p`
>	(commands acting on $line)
>end

I tried the above on a large file and it did not work.  csh reported
       Too many words from ``.
The file was 118583 bytes.  Does anybody have any ideas on how to 
get around this limit and still get one line at a time?

Gregory Bolella                 bollella at cs.unc.edu
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University of North Carolina
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