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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting For loop in bourne shell is not working Post 302993302 by RudiC on Wednesday 8th of March 2017 02:06:00 PM
Old 03-08-2017
I'm afraid that code snippet can't possibly run flawlessly:
- the continuation ( \ ) between for ... and do needs to be dropped
- done missing
- esac missing

And, looking at the for construct, file will assume string values like ...csv or ...txt, which will never match sun_detail nor sum nor mod.
 

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