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# 8  
Old 04-30-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Prashanth B
Code:
for i in {1..5}
do
cp details.csv details{$i}.csv
done

Code:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5
do
cp details.csv details{$i}.csv
done

regards
# 9  
Old 04-30-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Prashanth B
Yeah Its working I thought of getting it in single command rather than executing it 5 times.

Code:
for i in {1..5}
do
cp details.csv details{$i}.csv
done

this is not creating 5 different files rather it creates one file as details{1..5}.csv
I donno where I went wrong..?
What you wrote would probably work with the bash shell. In AIX, though, the Korn shell (ksh) is used. -=Xray=- showed you already how a for-loop in ksh is constructed.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
# 10  
Old 05-01-2013
Maybe that would have worked if you had started ksh93. ksh93 supports some extra syntax that default ksh does not support.

for something like this though I would have done almost the same as you example:

Code:
$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5
do
cp details.csv details{$i}.csv
done

Quote:
Originally Posted by Prashanth B
Yeah Its working I thought of getting it in single command rather than executing it 5 times.

Code:
for i in {1..5}
do
cp details.csv details{$i}.csv
done

this is not creating 5 different files rather it creates one file as details{1..5}.csv
I donno where I went wrong..?
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