Re: --nest for nested argument files

[Ole Tange]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Matt Oates (Home) <mattoates@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 May 2011 16:43, Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Can we come up with an even better word? Maybe something already used 
>> elsewhere?
>
> There is a generator function in the Icon programming langauge that
> does something very similar called 'every' the point being you are
> generating every combination of some data and the whole expression
> gets around having to nest any loops at all! Describe the
> functionality not what it's replacing, 'forevery' or 'forall' might be
> good too.

I do not like --forall (primarily I have been thinking about makine
--onall, which would run all commands on all hosts in the hostlist),
but --forevery I like much better.

> Really looking forward to using this, thanks for your efforts Ole!

Try the alpha. I have changed so that --forevery is default and
--xapply now must be set explicitly.


/Ole