Script loop question
 

Hi chaps,


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Can someone point me in the direction of an example that
will help me do this?


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I have a script that takes an argument (a file name) and
performs actions on that file. I want to mod the script so that i can pass, as arguments,
multiple filenames and have the script perform the same set of commands on each
file in turn, like this;


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./filename.sh file1 file2 file3


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etc.


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I guess it's bringing the two parts of the loop and the
arguments together to loop through each argument in turn, but that's where I
get stuck.


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Thanks


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Olly


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Script loop question
 

Oliver Marshall:

> I have a script that takes an argument (a file name) and performs
> actions on that file. I want to mod the script so that i can pass, as
> arguments, multiple filenames and have the script perform the same
> set of commands on each file in turn, like this;
>
> ./filename.sh file1 file2 file3
>
> etc.
>
> I guess it's bringing the two parts of the loop and the arguments
> together to loop through each argument in turn, but that's where I
> get stuck.

for f in "$@"; do
echo $f
done

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Thanks for that. I've also just found the magic shift command which is superb (MS are you listening?). Using it like this;

# Loop until all parameters are used up
while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
echo "Parameter 1 equals $1"
echo "You now have $# positional parameters"

# Shift all the parameters down by one
shift

done


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Subject: Re: Script loop question

Oliver Marshall:

> I have a script that takes an argument (a file name) and performs
> actions on that file. I want to mod the script so that i can pass, as
> arguments, multiple filenames and have the script perform the same
> set of commands on each file in turn, like this;
>
> ./filename.sh file1 file2 file3
>
> etc.
>
> I guess it's bringing the two parts of the loop and the arguments
> together to loop through each argument in turn, but that's where I
> get stuck.

for f in "$@"; do
echo $f
done

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Oliver Marshall wrote:

> Thanks for that. I've also just found the magic shift command which is
> superb (MS are you listening?).

Huh? DOS always had that...
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=?UTF-8?B?TWFya3VzIFNjaMO2bmhhYmVy?= <ubuntu-users@list-post.mks-mail.de> writes:

>Oliver Marshall:

>> I have a script that takes an argument (a file name) and performs
>> actions on that file. I want to mod the script so that i can pass, as
>> arguments, multiple filenames and have the script perform the same
>> set of commands on each file in turn, like this;
>>
>> ./filename.sh file1 file2 file3
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> I guess it's bringing the two parts of the loop and the arguments
>> together to loop through each argument in turn, but that's where I
>> get stuck.

>for f in "$@"; do
> echo $f
>done

for f ; do
echo "$f"
done

Two things:
1) 'in "$@"' is redundant. It is the default in a for loop
2) always quote expansions - i.e. "$f", so that spaces are properly retained


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