UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all,
In my shell script, I am reading some files, processing them, and writing the out-put in the log files. The out put contains number of rows in the file etc.
I want to fetch the input files from a particular directory and I want to write the logs in a particular directory with a particular name..
eg..
Input files will be fetched from /workplace/inputfiles/
logs will be writte to /workplace/logs/
The names of the input files will be input1.txt, input2.txt..
Name of the log files will be logs1.log, logs2.log..

I don't want to hardcode the paths for the input files and logs in my shell script.
Can somebody tell me whether I can use something like INI files in windows for these initializations??

Thanks
VEN

You can just use a second script and execute it in the same shell as the main script

obviously these are just skeletons

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
#
# config.ini  you can call it whatever you want
#
INPUTDIR=/workplace/inputfiles
OUTPUTDIR=/workplace/logs

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
#
# mainscript.ksh
[[ -f /full/path/to/config.ini ]] && . full/path/to/config.ini || exit 2

for file in ${INPUTDIR}; do
   echo "processing ${file}" > ${OUTPUTDIR}/somefile
done