reading multiple file names into script

[noiz]

I'm trying to write a script that will read a file
and then find the top words located in that file

i have the script down so it can read one file but want it to be able to read several files and loop.

ie.

input: fileA fileB fileC

script will read first fileA then fileB...fileC then prompt for additional files to check...until i ^D the proccess.

i already have the script to sort the filenames just cann't get the loop to work. thanks..

zion
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[d3funct]

What kind of loop are you using?
Did you try a for loop?
For example, say I have a script called &quot;foo.ksh&quot; and this script format's the files I have a certain way. I could do this:
for z in file1 file2 file3 file4...etc
do
foo.ksh
done

This would run the &quot;foo.ksh&quot; script against all those files. d3funct
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[noiz]

defunct,

Thanks,

I'm trying to make my script able to read multiple file names at once. however i don't know how many the end user will put in. So i need a was to be able to read user input
and then proccess each file name entered by the user. When done the script returns to normal.

below is the script that will run inside my loop:
#!/bin/sh
#read test
#cat $test | tr -s ' ' '\012' > tmp1.tmp

#cat tmp1.tmp | tr &quot;[A-Z]&quot; &quot;[a-z]&quot; | sort -d > tmp3.tmp
#cat tmp3.tmp | uniq -c > tmp4.tmp
#sort -n tmp4.tmp > tmp5.tmp
#tail -50 tmp5.tmp
#rm tmp*

thanks again

zion
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