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Looping Through a List of Arguments (bourne)

The Bourne shell for loop looks like this: for arg in list do …Handle $arg… done Real life application.. # ls -l | awk ‘{print$9}’ user01 user02 user03 user04 user05 user06 user07 user08 user09 # pwd /home # for x in `ls -l | awk ‘{print$9}’` > do > chown $x $x > done # … Continue reading