Re: Shell Scripting Question

[john <johnpf@atnet.net.au>]

Hi Sunny!

Sunny Dubey wrote:

> Hey,
>
> how come the followind doesn't seem to work ...
>
> for i in `ls -1 /some/dir` ; do
>         cat /some/dir/"$i" >> /usr/fruits.txt
> done
>

because $i contains lines like:
    drw-r--r--    2     sunny    sunny    12345 Oct 23 14:09 hello.c
which is very unlikely to be a filename.

I think you want:

for i in /some/dir/* ; do
    cat $i >> /usr/fruits.txt
done


> cat just gives me the odd error of files not being found, however, I can't
> see why the files wouldn't be found ... hrrm ...

Files with spaces, tabs and colons in their names are evil anyway.

John P Foster