[clue-tech] Bash script question

[Tom Poindexter]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:42:41PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> I have a shell script that does something like this:
> 
> for file in `ls`
> do
> 
> However, I would rather be able to pipe a list of items into the script, 
> instead of relying always on ls:
> 
> ls | myscript
> 
> Is this possible?
> 


Sure:


  #!/bin/bash
  # myscript
  while read file ; do
     echo got $file
  done


use as:

  ls |  myscript
  

-- 
Tom Poindexter
tpoindex at nyx.net
http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/
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