Re: Loops and scripting in eshell

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

Kai Grossjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:

> Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Kai Grossjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> Even though I now know how to do for loops in eshell, I was wondering

Somehow I misread this as “Even though I don't know ...” or else I
would have asked: How? instead of assuming that it isn't possible ...

>>> if the following idea might be fun to play with.  Maybe someone has
>>> already done this and would like to share?
>> [...]
>>
>> Loops are the one feature that I am missing in eshell.
>
> for f in a b { echo $f; }               # invokes shell command echo
> for f in a b ( find-file f )            # invokes Lisp command

Funny. All I ever tried is

for f in a b; do echo $f; done

Which doesn't work, obviously.

Thank you very much. What a relief!

    Oliver
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