Name
for
Synopsis
for x [inlist
] docommands
done
For variable x (in optional
list of values), do
commands. If in
list is omitted,
"$@"
(the positional parameters)
is assumed.
Examples
Paginate files specified on the command line, and save each result:
for file; do pr $file > $file.tmp done
Same, but put entire loop into the background:
for file; do pr $file > $file.tmp done &
Search chapters for a list of words (like fgrep -f
):
for item in `cat program_list` do echo "Checking chapters for" echo "references to program $item…" grep -c "$item.[co]" chap* done
Extract a one-word title from each file and use as new filename:
for file do name=`sed -n ′s/NAME: //p′ $file` mv $file $name done
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