Tag Archives: for loop
Used Another ‘For… DO’ Loop
The last post, was used to chmod a list of home directory. I used another application for that ‘for..do’ loop again… it’s climbing my favorite script command list.. second only to ‘while…do’.. for X in `ls -last | grep 2006 | awk ‘{print $9}’` do rm -rf $x done bye bye 2006 directories!
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