Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/bash

text1="This goes into row 1 of each file"
text2="This goes into row 3 of each file"
text3="This one goes into file red.txt in row 2"
text4="This one goes into file yellow.txt in row 2"
text5="This one goes into file blue.txt in row 2"


file1=( "$text3" "red.txt" )
file2=( "$text4" "yellow.txt" )
file3=( "$text5" "blue.txt" )

for (( i=0;i<2;i++ )); do
  eval specialtext=\${file${i}[0]}
  eval filename=\${file${i}[1]}
  echo -e $text1"\n"$specialtext"\n"$text2 > $filename
done

line 17: $filename: ambiguous redirect

for (( i=1;i<4;i++ )); do

for (( i=0;i<2;i++ )); do

file[0]=( "$text3" "red.txt" )
file[1]=( "$text4" "yellow.txt" )
file[2]=( "$text5" "blue.txt" )

#!/bin/bash

text1="This goes into row 1 of each file"
text2="This goes into row 3 of each file"
text3="This one goes into file red.txt in row 2"
text4="This one goes into file yellow.txt in row 2"
text5="This one goes into file blue.txt in row 2"

ftext=( "$text3" "$text4" "$text5" )
file=( "red.txt" "yellow.txt" "blue.txt" )

for (( i=0;i<3;i++ )); do
  echo -e "$text1\n${ftext[i]}\n$text2" > "${file[i]}"
done