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Old 11-07-2011
Looping for multiple directories

Hi experts,
I am totally stuck with this.
I run a looping "for" command for multiple directories, manually, I have done this :

vfor dir in A B; do
cp -p $dir/X.txt X-${dir}.txt
done[/CODE]

where A and B is directory name.
However, I need to run for many directories.
So I have tried this :

Code:
H=directory
for dir in ${directory} ; do
   cp -p $dir/X.txt X-${dir}.txt
done

where H is a file which inside is (A) and (B)
But somehow it did not work out. Smilie
Any suggestion please.
 

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