I have a simple unix question - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

smn2003 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-10-2005

Hello all,
I need to write a little unix script to do some work on multiple files. I need to enter the filenames from the command line (scriptname <filename> <filename>. I have written the code to do double spacing, and some line numbering but it does not take multiple files from the command line. How do I accomplish this? What is the syntax? I used $* to read in all of the args from the command line but it only takes the first filename and ignores the rest. Thanks if anyone can help.

bhargav · #2 (**permalink**) 12-10-2005

Following piece of code may help ...

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

while test $# -ne 0
do
   echo $1
   shift
done

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