Shell Programming and Scripting

bash or c-shell On Solaris 10

I need a command that will list the files of a directory, and grep each of those filenames out of a static text file, and then only echo field 2 of the static text file.

Something like this:

To avoid assumptions and guessing, please post desired output example and a representation of `static text file'

its pretty simple really...here is the command that seems to work in bash. I guess i was just wondering if there was a c-shell way of doing it?

Code:

for file in `ls -1 /home/dir`; do grep $file /home/static.txt |awk '{print $2}'; done

I just free-typed that on my box, seemed good....Anyone know of a C-shell equivalent?

Relying on the output of ls to iterate via a for loop not so good.
Anything that grep could give you, awk can do as well, so there is no need for grep. In fact, Awk most likely can do it all by itself.
... But hey, is your choice.

Most of us find the inconsistencies between csh interactive and non-interactive behavior a strong disincentive for using csh as a scripting language.

As Aia said, (as long as none of the filenames you're processing contain a newline character), the following would be much more efficient than your current script. And, if any of the filenames you're processing do contain a newline character, your current script won't work either. Your current script will also fail if there are any space or tab characters in any of the filenames you're processing.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
DIR=/home/dir
cd "$DIR"
printf '%s\n' * | awk -v d="$DIR/" '
FNR == NR { fn[++c] = d $0; next }
{ for(i = 0; i <= c; i++) if(index($0, fn[i])) print $2 }
' - /home/static.txt

I generally prefer the Korn shell, but this script will also work with bash or a pure Bourne shell (/bin/sh on Solaris systems).