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 I had the need today to read in a list of patterns from a file, expand them and then operate upon each file all from within a shell script. Apparently there is a <a href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0210/6m6nb7mas?a=view">shell built-in for csh</a>, but I didn't want to learn csh at that point. The eventual solution was to run an extra shell with the -c argument.
 
 Example:
-<pre>#!/bin/bash
-FILES=`cat patterns.txt`
-for pattern in $FILES; do
+    #!/bin/bash
+    FILES=`cat patterns.txt`
+    for pattern in $FILES; do
         bash -c "ls -l ${pattern}"
-done</pre>
+    done
+