[lug] Appending a file to files

[Robert Payne]

Without the parenthesis should work.

for files in bar/* ; do
     cat foo >> $files
done

Glenn Murray <gmurray at Mines.EDU>@lug.boulder.co.us on 01/16/2001 09:33:50
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Subject:  RE: [lug] Appending a file to files





On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Atkinson, Chip wrote:

> Don't know why it wouldn't work, but how about
> for i in (bar/*); do
>   cat foo >> $i
> done

Thanks for the response, but this script produces the
following error.

glenn/$ sh catscr.sh
catscr.sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `(b'
catscr.sh: line 1: `for i in (bar/*); do'
glenn/$

Glenn



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