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From: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: for loops
Keywords: sh: for i to $FILES
Message-ID: <619@genco.bungi.com>
Date: 4 Apr 91 19:20:42 GMT
References: <3693@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Organization: Gentry & Assoc. Excelsior Springs, MO
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In article <3693@ux.acs.umn.edu> edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) writes:
>In sh, I'd like to do something like a BASIC for loop.  Say I have $FILES
>set to some number, and I'd like to go through a loop $FILES times.  Can
>this be done in sh?
>

for i in $FILES
do
	ls -l $i
	....  or whatever to do with that file
done


If FILES="/etc/inittab /etc/passwd /etc/mnttab etc...", each file will be 
treated individually in the example above.