how to read a variable?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

i want to ask how can i read a variable?

like

for i in 1 2 3
do
cat file${1} | while read something
do
if [ ]
echo " file name: file${i}" >>temp
else
echo ", file${i}" >>temp
done
done

it is not working, can i do something like that?

actually i want the output below
file name: file1, file2, file3

2

can anyone please help me with the question?
Thank you

3

Please don't up bump up the posts - it's against the rules.

4

Not sure what you are looking for. try this

echo -n "filename: ";for i in 1 2 3;do echo -n "file${i} ";done
5

On the cat command - you have ${1} instead of ${i} - that will not do what you seem to want.