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Old 10-13-2011
For loop and file not found
Hi All,

I have a simple script.sh file. It gives me " file.txt' for reading (no such file or directory)" Why can this happen?
Code:
%ls
 
ch1file.txt ch2file.txt ch3file.txt
 
% chmod +x script.sh
% bash
% ./script.sh

where script.sh is as follows

Code:
for i in seq(3)
do awk '{print $1}' ch${i}file.txt > ch${i}_out.txt
done

Last edited by Franklin52; 10-14-2011 at 03:31 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
# 2  
Old 10-13-2011
because seq doesn't work that way. seq 3

bash has better alternatives to seq anyway:

Code:
for ((N=1; N<=3; N++))
do
...
done

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