Bash for loop syntax error with pipe

Question

I'm trying this command

for x in qstat -u '*' | grep Eqw | awk {'print $1'}; do qmod -cj $x; done

and end up with this error:

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `|'

I've tried wrapping my qstat command in various quotes and brackets to no avail, what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Since you seem to want to loop through on the result, so change it to:

for x in `qstat -u '*' | grep Eqw | awk {'print $1'}`; do qmod -cj $x; done