On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, JupiterHost.Net wrote:
> Saurabh Singhvi wrote:
> > HI all,
>
> Hello,
>
> > i want to write a perl script in linux that would get the file names
> > in the directory i am running it in and then execute a system command
> > for each file.(the encoding line). how should i go about it??
>
> perl -mstrict -we 'for(`ls`) { chomp;print `grep foo $_`; }'
By which you're basically saying the following non-Perl statement::
$ for file in *; do command "$file"; done
Or, as a full shell script:
#/bin/sh
command=/whatever/you/want
for file in *
do
$command "$file"
done
But I'm still confused -- why not just forget all this and do a
$ command *
?
I see no need for Perl *or* shell to solve this, unless the system
command in question doesn't know how to take multiple files as input.
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Chris Devers
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