Shell Programming and Scripting

...Hi ,

i would run "ls" command through 1 directory like this :

#ls /dir1/dir2/file* > fic.txt

and having the result on 1 line separated by a blank.

Then with this result , i could run a script like this :

for i in fic.txt
do.....

it seems to be simple but the "for" statement needs to have each entry as a field...

I'm sure you have an idea .......

thanks in advance

Christian

The trouble with that approach would be if the filename had some form of whitespace in it, the filename would be split.

I'd rather just do an
ls > foo.txt

Then, use a while loop

Code:

while read line
  # do something to "$line"
  echo "$line"
done < foo.txt

To answer your original question, you could do something like
ls -m | tr -d ',' > foo.txt to get a space seperated list of files and directories on one line, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Cheers
ZB

Thanks for the double answer , the "while" statement is the solution !

thanks again
Christian

ls -m | tr "," " " | tr "\n" " " | tr -s " "



does the job toooo ....

Indeed, if the output is greater than the number of columns specified in the COLUMNS environment variable, then you will need to replace newlines.

I still wouldn't use this method though as filenames with whitespace will still make the code fall down.

Cheers
ZB

while read line
do
echo "$line\c " ; echo " \c"
done < foo.txt



\c to echo prevents echo to take a new line ;