Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I need to select the txt files from one folder and pass this filename as parameter and the loop should discontinue after all the files are selected and the iteration should continue only once..

Viz., i have files like abc_2005_f1.txt, abc_2006_f1.txt, abc_2007_f1.txt... in /data folder.

I need to select this filename from the folder and pass this as parameter to other function inside the loop. viz.,
msh samplefile.msh abc_2005_f1.txt
msh samplefile.msh abc_2006_f1.txt...Like this the loop should continue and end after the last file..
Can you guide me in making the script..

Thanks,
Kumar

If you're passing the name to one command

Code:

find /data/ -name '*.txt' -print | xargs -I'{}' -n1 msh samplefile.msh '{}'
or
find /data/ -name '*.txt' -exec msh samplefile.msh '{}' \;

If there's more to do

Code:

for file in `find /data/ -name '*.txt' -print`
do
    # stuff
done

Thanks for your time in replying to that..
Actually the script which you told is selecting the entire path
when i give $file to pass the parameter..

But i need only the .txt file name to execute in some other function..

Can you please clarify me on this..

Thanks
Kumar

just filename from the entire path

Code:

basename <full_path>

for file in `find /data/ -name '*.txt' -print`
do
# stuff (here i need to see only the filename but not entire path)
done

basename /data/

As suggested i have used basename but it is displaying the path.
Moreover, i need to see the logs of each and every file executed in the loop.

if i give > logfilename ...it will overwrite everytime for each file. but i need to see the logfile for all the files selected in the loop.
if we use >> next time it will append the new log to the old log for the next run..

can you please provide me the example of how to capture the logs for all the files in this run and replace the same for next run..

Thanks
Kumar

Please use code tags
That was an example

that should be used as

Code:

just_filename=`basename $full_path`

For retaining all the logs ( which is good ! ) you need to append ' >> '

to make sure all the logs for each and every run is retained, append timestamp_datestamp to the log file which makes the log_filename unique

Hi Madhan,

Thanks for quick suggestions!

Sorry if i not understood correctly from your reply..

Actually i need to have the log file like this..
viz., i have 4 .txt files and am executing command using for loop for all the four files..

when i use '>>' it will do for all four files today..

Again if i want to run the same script tomorrow, the existing log file should get replaced with the 4 .txt files run tomorrow..

can you suggest me on this..