thanks very much for the help. obviously reading through the help i missed the bit about using a $ - maybe because i had punctuation too low. thanks once again. saqib ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Spivey" <tspivey8@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 10:24 PM Subject: re: for command > an example: to tail all the files in the current directory, > you can do tail *, also: > for i in *; do tail $i;done > you can do (in bash): > help for > and it gives you: > for: for NAME [in WORDS ... ;] do COMMANDS; done > The `for' loop executes a sequence of commands for each member in a > list of items. If `in WORDS ...;' is not present, then `in "$@"' is > assumed. For each element in WORDS, NAME is set to that element, and > the COMMANDS are executed. > so, > for i in *.txt;do cat "testing" >>$i;done > would append "Testing" to the files in the current directory ending with .txt. > hope this helps. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
