a little shell problem

[Bob George]

Lynn David Newton wrote:
 > I'm writing a script (in ksh, not bash, but I believe
 > the problem is the same in either shell) where I have
 > to write some files to a number of login directories.
 > Putting a list of targets in a variable near the top
 > like this turns off tilde expansion:>
 > rather than
 >
 > for client in ~joe/foo \
 >               ~blow/foo \
 > 	      ~shmo/blah
 > do
 >   stuff
 > done
 >
 > Surely this is an easy thing, but I've got a mental
 > block. Can someone help me get my blinders off? Thanks.

This works in bash:

for CLIENTS in $(cat file); do ls -l ~${CLIENTS}/.bash\*; done

where <file> contains a list of usernames, 1 per line.

- Bob