Shell Programming and Scripting

$ sh test.sh file*
file
file1
file2
file3
filename
filena_test.xls

$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/sh -e
for file in $@; do
    date >> /home/gerbil/Gerb_jump/$file
        echo $file
done

$ for i in file*; do tail -1 $i; done
Mon Oct  1 09:44:16 EDT 2012
Mon Oct  1 09:44:16 EDT 2012
Mon Oct  1 09:44:16 EDT 2012
Mon Oct  1 09:44:16 EDT 2012
Mon Oct  1 09:44:16 EDT 2012
Mon Oct  1 09:44:16 EDT 2012

#!/bin/sh -e
cd /var/lib
for arg in $@; do
    for file in /var/lib/$arg; do  
        date >> $file
    done
done

#!/bin/sh
for arg in "$@"; do
        date | tee -a $(find /var/lib -maxdepth 1 -name "$arg") >/dev/null 
done