On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Tim Bruce - PLUG wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't
>>   set $all="cat list"
>> be
>>   set $all=`cat list`
>
> Tim,
>
>   Doesn't seem to make a difference. No error shows up there. Even adding a
> 'done' to the end of the for loop doesn't help. I'm still missing something
> very elementary, yet essential.
>

If you run your script like:

sh -x path_to/script

You should get a better idea of what is not working.
I think that someone answered earlier.

all=`cat list`

or the bashism version of this

all=$(cat list)
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