st: Shell

["Hans J. Baumgartner" <hbaumgartner@diw.de>]

Dear statalist,

I am using Stata8 on a Unix machine. 

I am using the a shell to erase some files, but while doing so Stata does 
not find the end of the loop. Why?

Example

foreach x in ? {
        do something
        ! rm ${temp}/*.*
}

Stata does not read the closing bracket. 

Any suggestions?
Hans





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Hans J. Baumgartner
Dept. Public Economics
DIW Berlin
German Institut for Economic Research
phone: +49/30/89789-307
fax :      +49/30/89789-114
URL: www.diw.de
          www.hansbaumgartner.de
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