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Old 07-15-2011
easy UNIX for loop not working...
So, I am trying to find and print info about all of the .txt files in a current directory. This is the information that I intend to gather:

-File number (say there are 6 .txt files in the directory...it would be incremented 1-6)
-File name
-File directory
-Number of lines

Pretty straightforward, right? But for some reason, it isn't working.

This is what I have:

Code:
for file in *.txt  #goes through all .txt files
do
  count=1;
  echo 'File #: $count';
  count=$((count + 1));   #increments count
  echo 'File name: ' {print FILENAME}; #supposed to print filename?
  echo 'File Directory:' pwd; #will pwd be appended here?
  echo 'Line count:' wc - l; #will wc -l be appended here?
done
 
I know there is at least one thing wrong with this. I am not sure if {print FILENAME} is the correct way to print the current file I am looking at, and I don't think that appended pwd or wc -l after an echo statement will cause it to print like I want it to...
 
This is my first shell script ever! Can you guys help me out?

---------- Post updated at 02:14 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:14 PM ----------

whoops...messed up the code tags. sorry!
# 2  
Old 07-15-2011
I don't want to mess all the fun and post the answer.

through each time through the loop, $file will be set to the current file.
you're resetting count INSIDE the loop! So it won't really count at all.
To print results of a command like you are, you need `cmd` (with backticks) or $(( cmd )) syntax..

Let us know if you want more info right away though.

Edit: oh, and the echo 'count: $count' doesn't expand inside single-quotes. you need double quotes. echo "count: $count"
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# 3  
Old 07-16-2011
Wow man...I butchered this thing! But your guidance has gotten the whole thing working for me! Thank you! I really love when people don't just post the solution, because it got me thinking and now I understand it!
 
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