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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Change argument in a for loop Post 302870693 by wbport on Monday 4th of November 2013 12:43:26 PM
Old 11-04-2013
I was not able to get that substitution to fly but found a way around it.

My question is that in its present form the script only processes the first file it finds in the parameter. If I give scriptname *FD.CPY , the script only processes the first file matching that description. If I put the above expression in the script instead of $1, it does it on everything (it's supposed to). How can I change it to work on (a) specified file(s) in the parameter?

Code:

for i in $1
do
suby="`echo $i |sed 's/CPY/CPy/'`"
subz="`echo $i |sed 's/CPY/CPz/'`"
sublay="`echo $i |sed 's/CPY/layout/'`"
sed "s/*>.*/ /" $i > $suby
reclay $suby > $subz
sed "s/CPy/CPY/" $subz > $sublay
rm $suby $subz
done

TIA
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       bup margin [options...]

DESCRIPTION

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