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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple bash for loop problem Post 302088865 by inquirer on Friday 15th of September 2006 12:01:39 AM
Old 09-15-2006
the reason this did not work:

Code:
for i in removethese.txt; do echo $i; done

is because the for loop does not know what to do with the removethese.txt file. it does not accept files as an input. you can add cat command or similar commands that will read or extract contents of the file then feed them to the for loop. in this case using cat command:

Code:
for i in `cat removethese.txt`; do echo $i; done

thanks
 

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