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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting For cycle Post 302120774 by aigles on Friday 8th of June 2007 05:48:13 AM
Old 06-08-2007
Code:
for file in <directory>/*
do
   echo $file
   mv -f $file <another dir>
done

The is a problem with this for loop : if the directory is empty body of the loop is executed nevertheless with the variable file set to '<directory>/*'

Another solution with the for loop :
Code:
for file in `ls -1 <directory>/* 2>/dev/null'
do
   echo $file
   mv -f $file <another dir>
done

You can also use a while loop :
Code:
ls -1 <directory>/* 2>/dev/null | \
while read file
   echo $file
   mv -f $file <another dir>
done

Jean-Pierre.
 

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shtool mkshadow [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-a|--all] src-dir dst-dir DESCRIPTION
This command creates a shadow tree of src-dir under dst-dir by recreating the directory hierarchy of src-dir under dst-dir and by creating the files of src-dir by linking them into the corresponding directories under dst-dir via symbolic links. When src-dir can be reached via relative paths from dst-dir, relative symbolic links are used, too. This high-level functionality is originally designed for developers to create copies of source trees. OPTIONS
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