11-22-2005
How to process multiple files in Korn Shell
How do I make the below ksh to process all of the files inside a user specified directory?
Currently it can only process one file at a time.
#!/bin/ksh
tr -s '\11 ' ' ' < $1 > temp0
sed -e 's/,//g' temp0 > temp1
cut -d' ' -f1,4,5 temp1 > final_output
rm temp0 temp1
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let(1) User Commands let(1)
NAME
let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions
SYNOPSIS
ksh
let arg...
DESCRIPTION
ksh
Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 The value of the last expression is non-zero.
1 The value of the last expression is zero.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 let(1)