Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3572 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 14 February 2008 05:41:23 David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>       I have run into a bash problem with a simple for loop I don't
> understand and would like input from the gurus to determine if the tldp
> documentation is in error or if it is me. Safe money says it's me, but
> here is the situation.
>
>       I am using example 9.1.2.2. from the following link to construct a
> simple for loop to extract a directory full of zip files:
>
> http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_09_01.html
>
>       The example give is:
>
> [carol@octarine ~/html] cat html2php.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> # specific conversion script for my html files to php
> LIST="$(ls *.html)"
> for i in "$LIST"; do
>       NEWNAME=$(ls "$i" | sed -e 's/html/php/')
>       cat beginfile > "$NEWNAME"
>       cat "$i" | sed -e '1,25d' | tac | sed -e '1,21d'| tac >> "$NEWNAME"
>       cat endfile >> "$NEWNAME"
> done

This is actually in a tutorial? Wow

for i in *; do
   NEWNAME=${i%html}.php
   echo beginfile > "$NEWNAME"
   sed -e '1,25d.........


>       So I created the following:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> LIST="$(ls *.zip)"
> for i in "$LIST"; do
>          unzip $i -d
> /mnt/nemesis-cfg/home/samba/computer/software/fonts/extract
>          echo "Unzipped: $i to ../extract"
> done
> exit 0

for i in *.zip; do
   unzip "$i" -d /mnt/nemesis-cfg/home/samba/computer/software/fonts/extract
done

You want to have the quotes around $i to guard against spaces in file names

Anders
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