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# 1  
Old 04-04-2008
Java question about testing in shell programming
Hi i would like to write a "script" which takes a directory as an argument and the script will output the content of a file in this directory.Here is my code
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#set an argument to be a specified path
$1=/home/tuan/Desktop/Shell_programming/directory

#check if an argument is a directory
if [ ! -d $1 ]
then
	for number in $1
		do 
		echo "$number"
	done<list
else
	echo "No such that directory "
fi

After that in terminal I did:
Code:
tuan@tuan:~/Desktop/Shell_programming$ ./A3 directory
./A3: 2: directory=/home/tuan/Desktop/Shell_programming/directory: not found
No such that directory 
tuan@tuan:~/Desktop/Shell_programming$

It seems there are mistakes. Can anyone point it out for me.
PS: In "directory" directory, I did created a file named "list" like below
Code:
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# 2  
Old 04-04-2008
Try to use something else than "$1" as the variable name... e.g.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#set an argument to be a specified path
a=/home/tuan/Desktop/Shell_programming/directory

#check if an argument is a directory
if [ -d $a ]
then
	for number in $a
		do 
		echo "$number"
	done
else
	echo "No such that directory "
fi

# 3  
Old 04-05-2008
here is the new one (with modification)
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#set an argument to be a specified path
a=/home/tuan/Desktop/Shell_programming/directory/list
#check if an argument is a directory
if [ ! -d $a ]
then
	for number in $a
		do 
		echo "$number"
	done
else
	echo "No such that directory "
fi

However, the output is
Code:
tuan@tuan:~/Desktop/Shell_programming$ ./A3
/home/tuan/Desktop/Shell_programming/directory/list
tuan@tuan:~/Desktop/Shell_programming$

I have no idea.......
# 4  
Old 04-05-2008
The way to loop over files in a directory is to list them.

Code:
for number in "$a"/*; do ...

If you want to constrain this to just files whose names are a number, use a different wildcard. This loops over all files in the selected directory.
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