Re: Simple Conditional execution in a script

Hi,
You can use following bash script


#!/bin/bash
# usage:script <file>

count=`cat $1`
for i in `seq 1 $count`; do
touch "${1}_${i}.bak"
done


if ur "file" contains 25,
then it would create empty file
file_1.bak ... file_25.bak

Regards
YogS
On 12/8/05, crmuser1998 <crmuser1998@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Friends,
>
>  We are trying to accomplish a simple conditional exeuction of a
>  statement using sed or perl script,
>
>  We are trying to read a line from a file and generate a separate set
>  of files based on the lines from that file,
>
>  In most cases our source file has a number which tells us how many
>  files to create, so we have to read from a file called 07122005.bak,
>  which has just a number '25', we need to generate
>  07122005_1.bak ..07122005_25.bak
>
>  We have tried commands like more, head and cat to read the line into
>  a variable so that we could loop that many times, but when we use
>  those commands it is inserting a EOF into the variable value which
>  negates our downstream use of the variable
>
>  our script looks like
>  cat 07122005.bat > $u
>  echo $u
>
>  This returns
>  25
>  EOF
>
>  Any suggestions?
>
>  BTW, we are on a sun box(solaris)
>
>
>
>
>
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