tools/map


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#!/bin/sh

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <expr>"
    echo ""
    echo "Give the given expression for each newline-separated line in stdin as an argument to echo (think map in many programming languages)."
    echo 'The iterator variable is called "$ELEM", and the index variable is called "$IDX".'
    exit 1
fi

i=0
while IFS=$'\n' read -r line; do
    j=0
    for item in $line; do
        eval "X${j}='$item'"
        j=$((j+1))
    done

    IDX=$i ELEM="$line" eval "echo $1"
    i=$((i+1))
done