How to do this on the tcsh shell in linux

Question

I want to efficiently do the following on the tcsh in Linux.

somecommand a;
somecommand b;
somecommand c;

If I do somecommand {a,b,c}, this does somecommand a b c, which is not what I want. Is there a way to do what I want?

Answer 1

In Bash, it's for i in a b c; do somecommand $i; done. I bet it's similar in tcsh.

Answer 2

@Borealid's loop is best. Just for kicks, another way is to use xargs:

echo a b c | xargs -n 1 somecommand

Answer 3

Thanks Boralid and John for your answers. I have created an alias in tcsh for this. It works!!

alias myglob 'echo !:2-$ | xargs -n 1 !:1'

Answer 4

In tcsh, you should use a foreach loop, like this :

foreach val (a b c)
  somecommand $val
end

Better yet would be to have the values in a variable, like this :

set values="a b c"

foreach val ($values)
  somecommand $val
end