Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi experts,
I am totally stuck with this.
I run a looping "for" command for multiple directories, manually, I have done this :

vfor dir in A B; do
cp -p $dir/X.txt X-${dir}.txt
done[/CODE]

where A and B is directory name.
However, I need to run for many directories.
So I have tried this :

Code:

H=directory
for dir in ${directory} ; do
   cp -p $dir/X.txt X-${dir}.txt
done

where H is a file which inside is (A) and (B)
But somehow it did not work out.
Any suggestion please.

Code:

dirs=("`cat file_with_dirs`")
for dir in ${dirs}; do
  echo $dir
  ....
done

Why I got this error : Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Are you trying to loop along the subdirectories of $directory ? If so, try:

Code:

for subdir in "$directory"/*/ ; do
  echo "$subdir"
done

What shell are You working on?

I am using : #!/bin/sh
Probably I did not explain clearly. Sorry.
In file directory.txt (sorry, previously, I did not put .txt)

Code:

A
B

So far I haven`t succed yet.

Try:

Code:

while read dir; do
  echo "$dir"
done < directory.txt