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Old 09-22-2003
Embedded list? Is this possible
I need to write a script that maintains many directories. I was wondering is there is a way to create a list of the directories inside a script so that you can then use “while read line” to perform different commands for each directory.

Something like this

#!/bin/sh
MYLIST:
/dir1
/dir2
/dir2
END

while read line
do
rm “$line”/*.txt
done < MYLIST
exit
# 2  
Old 09-22-2003
Do this instead:

LIST="this that the-other-thing"

for item in $LIST ; do
done
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