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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Repeat command with new variable for each line in txt file Post 302805107 by pasc on Thursday 9th of May 2013 07:18:09 PM
Old 05-09-2013
Thanks, thats just perfectly fine !

---------- Post updated at 06:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:30 PM ----------

Another question.

If I use this
Code:
while read x
do
printf "cp /path/to/app.app/folder/$x.plist" >> /var/mobile/z_folder/"$x".sh
done < /var/mobile/names.txt

it outputs this (into the "$x".sh file):
Code:
cp /path/to/app.app/folder/.plist

Ergo, the variable is not pasted inside the file.

The file itself ("$x".sh) is just named fine. (In this case Name1, reffering to the first post).

Why is the variable just swallowed like this ?
Last edited by pasc; 05-09-2013 at 08:49 PM..
 

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