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Old 03-04-2008
bash: reading filenames from file
Hi,

I'm trying to write a script that reads filenames from a file and use these filenames in a loop. The filenames are all on one line and the problem is that these filenames have wildcards like * and braces like [0-9] in them.
Right now what I'm doing is something like this:
echo "reading from file" $1
set -x
cat $1 | while read;
do
line=($REPLY)
for file in ${line[@]};
do
command $file;
echo qsub -j oe -o $log tmp.sh; cat tmp.sh;
done
done

If I do it like this $file contains the wildcards and braces but I would like to loop over all file matching the expressions read in from the file.
I've tried doing something like
ls $REPLY
but it seems that $REPLY contains a single-quoted string so that ls doesn't expand the wildcards and complains about not finding the file instead.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
Thank you very much!
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SYNOPSIS

	 my ($verbose, $source, $filenames) = ('', undef, []);

	 my $entries = [
	   { long_name => 'verbose',
	     short_name => 'v',
	     arg_type => 'none',
	     arg_value => $verbose,
	     description => 'be verbose' },

	   { long_name => 'source',
	     short_name => 's',
	     arg_type => 'string',
	     arg_value => $source,
	     description => 'set the source',
	     arg_description => 'source' },

	   [ 'filenames', 'f', 'filename-array', $filenames ],
	 ];

	 my $context = Glib::OptionContext->new ('- urgsify your life');
	 $context->add_main_entries ($entries, 'C');
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	 # $verbose, $source, and $filenames are now updated according to the
	 # command line options given

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