Newbie - Need help in bash scripting

coolbib · July 25, 2002, 10:31pm

Hi there,

I am a student and currently working on a project. I have a file that contains about 50 filenames. (1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt ...).

I would like to know how can I store these filenames into a variable using a loop?

I would appreciate if anyone can help me. Thank You.

Regards,

Bib

hell666 · July 26, 2002, 1:34am

What exactly are you asking for? Do you want to know how would reaf from the file or what? If so, it depends on the way the names have been stored in the file, if were written with fprintf(), use fscanf() to read them, like:

fscanf(names_fp, "%s %s %s", name1, name2, name3);

coolbib · July 26, 2002, 9:47pm

Thank You.

My problem has been solved.

Regards,

Bib

jiin · August 10, 2002, 10:26pm

Originally posted by hell666
What exactly are you asking for? Do you want to know how would reaf from the file or what? If so, it depends on the way the names have been stored in the file, if were written with fprintf(), use fscanf() to read them, like:
fscanf(names_fp, "%s %s %s", name1, name2, name3);

Hmmm .. that doesn't look like bash to me. Maybe I am just not using the same bash as everyone else.

jiin

peter.herlihy · August 11, 2002, 8:28pm

FYI.... you shouldn't post homework questions in these forums. Especially not when you haven't made attempts to answer them at all yourself!