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Thanks kevin. That actually clicked in my head right after I hit send.=20
But thanks anyway.

nathan
Am Sonntag 02 Februar 2003 01:37 vormittags schrieb Kevin Brown:
> > I have a large text file with a bunch of names in it.
> >
> > Is there an easy way to have a script grep each name out of the file and
> > do something with it?
> >
> > Like create a variable from each name with the name as the value?
> > Or check to make sure that name is a folder somewhere else?
>
> something like:
>
> for p in `cat file`
> do
> echo $p
> done
>
> (add dir checking in place of echo $p).
>
> for p in `cat file`
> do
> if [ ! -e "$p" ]
> then
> 	`mkdir $p`
> else
> 	if [ ! -d "$p" ]
> 		echo "Not a Directory, but file by $p name exists here"
> 	fi
> fi
>
>
> Or something similar.
>
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