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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Creating new file inside a for loop Post 302954548 by mac4rfree on Wednesday 9th of September 2015 01:35:51 AM
Old 09-09-2015
Creating new file inside a for loop
Hi,

I have list of files present in a folder. I want to search for a particular keyword sequentially and create a file which will be later used by some other program.
Input files:
Code:
[mac]$ ls
a.dsx  b.dsx  c.dsx  Dataline_.txt  Dataline.txt  loop.sh
[ mac]$ cat *.dsx
help

tyiis
global

Code:
for i in `ls *.dsx`
do
grep 'help' $i > Dataline.txt;
mv Dataline.txt Dataline_$1.txt;
done

When i am executing this, i can see grep command is getting executed for all the files sequentially but the output is not getting captured in Dataline.txt

Code:
ls *.dsx
++ ls a.dsx b.dsx c.dsx
+ for i in '`ls *.dsx`'
+ grep help a.dsx
+ mv Dataline.txt Dataline_.txt
+ for i in '`ls *.dsx`'
+ grep help b.dsx
+ mv Dataline.txt Dataline_.txt
+ for i in '`ls *.dsx`'
+ grep help c.dsx
+ mv Dataline.txt Dataline_.txt

Can somebody point out as what i am doing wrong.

Cheers!!!

---------- Post updated at 11:05 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:46 AM ----------

Sorry, I found the solution. The script is working as expected.

Code:
for i in `ls *.dsx`
do
grep 'help' $i > Dataline.txt;
cat Dataline.txt;
awk '{ print FNR "|" $0 }' Dataline.txt > DataLine1.txt;
cat DataLine1.txt;
done

The above is working code. Thanks
 

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dos2unix(1)						      General Commands Manual						       dos2unix(1)

NAME

       dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter

SYNOPSYS

       dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]

       Options:

       [-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -h --help
	      Print online help.

       -k --keepdate
	      Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.

       -q --quiet
	      Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.

       -V --version
	      Prints version information.

       -c --convmode convmode
	      Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.

       -o --oldfile file ...
	      Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.

       -n --newfile infile outfile ...
	      New  file  mode.	Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
	      used or you WILL lost your files.

EXAMPLES

       Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.

	      dos2unix

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt b.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode.  Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.  Convert	c.txt  from  Mac  to  Unix
       ascii format.

	      dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.

	      dos2unix -k a.txt

	      dos2unix -k -o a.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.

	      dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

       Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt.  Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.

	      dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS

       The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode.  If you know why is that so, please tell me.

AUTHORS

       Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>

       Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>

MISCELLANY

       Tested environment:

	      Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8

	      SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3

	      MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02

       Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.

SEE ALSO

       unix2dos(1) mac2unix(1)

1995.03.31							   dos2unix v3.0						       dos2unix(1)
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