while read line

Devendar · #1 (**permalink**) 08-20-2009

Hi Gurus,
I am new to Unix, please help me out.

I have ascript which reads a line by line from a file abc.txt like below

abc.txt

2345
34576
5673

and i have to find out the file name starting with above linenames in another dir cd /xxx/ttt wll ls command work like below.

#bin/ksh

exec<abc.txt
while read line

cd /xxx/ttt

ls "$line"* > mv /xxx/ttt/subdir

do

please help.

shahnazurs · #2 (**permalink**) 08-20-2009

Code:

#bin/ksh

exec<abc.txt
while read line
do
    ls /xxx/ttt/"$line"*
done
exec < /dev/tty

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