Since no one had any idea what you had in mind, here is stab in the
dark. Did you want
% for(i in `{echo $w}) {echo $i; echo XXX}
?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Alexander Kapshuk
<alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.syk...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 26 April 2018 at 16:54, Lucio De Re <lucio.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> w=(A B C)
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> 1) this is not an answer
>> 2) the use of it all was that I wanted to send to print
>> certain files, the list of which I got from ls followed
>> by manual deletion (in 9term) of some... Newline separation
>> is thus natural.
>>
>> Thanks anyway
>> Ruda
>>
>
> You could initialise $w to hold a list of files output by ls like so:
> % w=`{ls}
> % echo $#w
> 40
>
> Is this what you had in mind?
>
