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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to loop through directories to touch files Post 302271607 by System Shock on Friday 26th of December 2008 04:24:18 PM
Old 12-26-2008
Quote:
Something like the following should work:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
for $i in {`ls $DIR`}
do
  touch $WHATEVER
done

That's not going to work in more ways than none.

I'm not clear if a loop is needed for any reason, nor if by "touching" the file you want to change the date stamp in the name fo the file or just the atime, but this seems to be better handled by the find command, like "find from /app name *2008* | exec touch the file" .
 

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TNTNET-CONFIG(1)					      General Commands Manual						  TNTNET-CONFIG(1)

NAME
tntnet-config - output compiler flags for tntnet usage SYNOPSIS
tntnet-config [--libs] [--cxxflags] [--config[=app]] [--makefile[=app]] [--project=app] [--autoproject=app] [--help] [--version] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the tntnet-config command. OPTIONS
This program's options start with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --libs Output linker flags. --cxxflags Output C++ preprocessor and compiler flags. --config[=app] Print default configuration file. --makefile[=app] Print a simple makefile for an ecpp project. --project=app Create a simple ecpp project directory. --autoproject=app Create a autotools based ecpp project. --help Show summary of options. --version Show version of program. AUTHOR
tntnet was written by Tommi Makitalo <tommi@tntnet.org>. This manual page was written by Kari Pahula <kaol@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). SEE ALSO
tntnet(8), ecppc(1), ecppl(1), ecppll(1). More documentation can be found in /usr/share/doc/tntnet-doc/. July 3, 2006 TNTNET-CONFIG(1)
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