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Old 07-16-2007
Processing files within a directory one by one

Hi


How to create a shell script which takes in to account all the files present within a directory DIR one by one
e.g.


suppose i have a directory named DIR where there are files with the extension .ABC

i want to create shell script which processes all these files one by one.

please provide the code of the shell script?

thanks
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