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Input file names..

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Oct 22, 2001
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I know there is an easy way to do this but probably I am not thinking... I want to get all the filenames as my input of a shell script. I am using 'ls' that displays the names of file. Now I want to take these names as input variable.
ls
a b c

output:
your files are: a , b , c

TIA
 
Try something like:

ls > filesnames

for name in `cat filenames`
do
your actions using the $name variable from filenames
done

Does this help?
 
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