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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Content of variable Post 302228178 by fpmurphy on Saturday 23rd of August 2008 07:51:05 AM
Old 08-23-2008
Why not simplify the problem and just use a while loop instead of a here-document i.e.
Code:
variable="file1 file2 file3"

for filename in $variable
do
   .......
done

 

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