[Nelug] Bash Scripting

[Edward Younger - Sun VSP - Firmware Engineer]

Andrew Hatch writes:
 > Wonder if anybody has come across the following:
 > 
 > -----------------------------------
 > #!/bin/bash
 > 
 > NUMFILES=3
 > FILE1="/home/file1.dat"
 > FILE2="/home/file2.dat"
 > FILE3="/home/file3.dat"
 > 
 > for i in $(seq $NUMFILES)
 > do
 >         THEFILE=FILE$i
 >         echo $THEFILE
 > done
 > ------------------------------------
 > 
 > this will output the following:
 > 
 > FILE1
 > FILE2
 > FILE3
 > 
 > But what I want it to do is output
 > 
 > /home/file1.dat
 > /home/file2.dat
 > /home/file3.dat
 > 


You could use an array to hold the values:

#!/bin/bash

FILES[1]="/home/file1.dat"
FILES[2]="/home/file2.dat"
FILES[3]="/home/file3.dat"

for i in ${FILES[*]}
do
        echo $i
done


Eddy.