a little shell problem

Lynn David Newton plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:36:43 -0700


  Bob> This works in bash:

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

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

Sure, I thought of this, but then I would have to
maintain an extra file, and if at all possible I want
to do that.

Hmmm ... how about a here document? I'll bet that would
work ...

Thanks for the clue.

-- 
Lynn