Help required for cat command

mahalakshmi · #1 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

Hi,
I had written the following script to find the list of files with *.ksh in a directory. and store it in a temp file.

I want to loop through the file temp and list the contents. I had used cat temp. But its giving Cat and temp as the output.

Do help me out.

Thanks

find . -name '*.ksh' -print > temp

for i in cat temp

do
echo 'valiue is ': $i
done

matrixmadhan · #2 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

Code:

for i in `cat temp`

mahalakshmi · #3 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

This is the output i am getting

$ ./list.ksh
valiue is : cat temp

matrixmadhan · #4 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

Code:

>cat temp
a
b
c

Code:

for i in `cat list`
do
echo 'value is' : $i
done

value is : a
value is : b
value is : c

check the contents of temp file after find command is run

anbu23 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by mahalakshmi

This is the output i am getting

$ ./list.ksh
valiue is : cat temp

use backticks

Code:

for i in `cat temp`

anbu23 · #6 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

Code:

while read i
do
echo 'value is ': $i
done < temp

or

Code:

for i in `cat temp`
do
echo 'value is ': $i
done

The first code is faster

mahalakshmi · #7 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

Thanks anbu the while loop is working not the for loop.

Thanks all for the immediate reply.

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