Shell Programming and Scripting

it is the actual beta for line one that I am working on

Does your loop -- whatever it is -- actually work, or is it another broken one? What's "sire", and why are you feeding it into the loop? What is the purpose of the loop? What output does this produce, if any?

Most of what you actually did in that terminal, i.e. the parts I actually asked for, are obscured behind your browser window. Come on. We're trying to help you. Work with us a little.

try this

Code:

#!/bin/sh
var=1
while read i 
do
  echo $i | ./perm $i > $i  (check this as i dont know what perm is doing)
  cp beta beta$var
  var=$(expr $var + 1)
done < yourfilename