Reading filenames with extension .xml

bhalotias · #1 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

Hi,

I want to write a script to read all the filenames with extension .xml in a directory and pass the name of the file, one by one, to another function.

Please help me out.

Regards.
Saurabh

earnstaf · #2 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

Code:

for file in /path/to/*.xml
do
grep stuff $file
done

awk · #3 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhalotias

Hi,

I want to write a script to read all the filenames with extension .xml in a directory and pass the name of the file, one by one, to another function.

Please help me out.

Regards.
Saurabh

As a warning, xml can be tricky to handle for various reasons:
1) it could all be on a single line - which means many unix utilities will not handle properly.
2) white space between tags is totally allowed, or optional (see #1)
3) It could be in "uni-code" which means there could be binary zeroes between every other character.

so have fun with the variations.

ghostdog74 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhalotias

Hi,

I want to write a script to read all the filenames with extension .xml in a directory and pass the name of the file, one by one, to another function.

Please help me out.

Regards.
Saurabh

ls *xml | while read -r file
do
function $file
done

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