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Hi ,

I have a string which is of multiple line,I have to split the string by reading one line in each iteration and keep it in a string.I am keeping all the file names in side as string returned by the ls command ,I am stocked at the point of spliting the string to segragate each file.

please find my code below and help me out in spliting.

Code:

dirname="$1";
if [ -d $dirname ]
then
string=`ls $dirname`;
echo "$string";
else
echo "Directory $dirname doesn't exist";
fi

Many Thanks.

Could you be a bit more clear about what you want ? Can you post the input and required output ?

Hi ,

I exactly want to do this ,
unix program to which a directory name will be passed as
parameter. This directory will contain files with various
extensions. This script will create directories with the names of the
extention of the files and then put the files in the
corresponding folder. All files which do not have any extension will be
put in a default folder.


Thanks.

Isn't this the same post ?

It is the same question, thread closed!