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Tags: advanced features, asked questions, command interpreter, default command, gnu bourne, Linux, scripting guide, shell bash, shell programming, this document contains ~ Last updated on: December 27, 2007
Hi,
I am using bash shell. I have a list of selected directories and want to loop over these directories. The code is like this:
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#!/bin/bash
dir1=/home/abc/xyz1
dir2=/home/abc/xyz2
dir3=/home/cft/dsf
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x=1
dir=”"
while [ $x -le 8 ]; do
echo $(”dir”$x)
let x++
done
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In output it produces dir1, dir2, dir3 etc., not the full name directory as defined above. How should I do this?
Thanks
Manojg
See my solution
#!/bin/bash
#one approach is to use array
dir=(/home/abc/xyz1 /home/abc/xyz2 /home/cft/dsf)
x=0
while [ $x -lt ${#dir[@]} ];
do
echo ${dir[x]}
((x++))
done
# another one is just use ‘for’
echo “”
dirs=”/home/abc/xyz1 /home/abc/xyz2 /home/cft/dsf”
for dir in $dirs
do
echo $dir
done