Passing filename as parameter and displaying the file contents

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All,

Its extremely urgent regarding the following requirement.
I have created few files in a directory. I have write a program in shell scripting such that it prompts for the filename . once the filename is entered,it should print the contents of the file.

Can anyone help with this......... Its extremely urgent.

2

Can you show us what have you tried so far and where you are stuck?

Regards

3

a very simple script matches your requirement:

#!/bin/bash

echo "filename ???"
read fn

for f in $fn
 do
   cat $f
done
4

Can you post your code please?
How do you want the file's content to be printed? in the terminal (in this case maybe a "more file.txt" could do)?

5

So now we are making homework for others?

Regards

6

Thanks for the replies

7

this is very short.

#!/bin/sh

read file
cat $file
8

@ Franklin52 : sorry, i posted the solution at the same time as your post so ...
I'll pay attention next time.