The for Loop
The for loop is used to process a list of items. The list can be supplied in the script. It could also be taken from the script arguments, from a file, or from the output of a command.
\n\nThe syntax of the for construct is as follows:\n\nfor list\ndo\ncommand_list\ndone\n\nAll the commands in the list are carried out for each item in the list.\n\n
The following script invokes the C compiler cc for all files with the extension of .c held in the current directory.
\n\n\nfor filename in $(ls *.4gl)\ndo\ncc $filename\ndone\n\n\n
A similar script could be written to compile several programs specified on the command line. The user can specify as many programs as he wants.
\n\n\nfor filename in $*\ndo\ncc $filename\ndone\n\n\n$* expands to all the arguments given by the user. Each argument will count as a single item in the list.\n\n
This construct is very useful for working with commands that give more than one line of output. Note, however, that the loop will be carried out for each word of the output, rather than once for each line. Commands whose output consist of several columns separated by spaces will be treated as one list item for each column of each row.
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To illustrate this, we will look at a script that takes the output from the ps command, and attempts to process it as a list. The output from ps looks something like this:
\n\n PID TTY TIME CMD\n 3218 pts/2 0:01 ksh\n 3207 pts/2 0:00 sh\n 3550 pts/2 0:00 ps\n\nThe script is as follows:\n\n\nfor process in $(ps)\ndo\necho $process\ndone\n\n\nand gives the following output:\n\nPID\nTTY\nTIME\nCMD\n3218\npts/2\n0:01\nksh\n3207\npts/2\n0:00\nsh\n3579\npts/2\n0:00\nps\n3578\npts/2\n0:00\nksh\n\n
If we wanted to carry out commands on each line rather than on each word, and ignore the column headings, we would have to use some ingenuity. The following script displays the PID and command from each line output from the ps command.
компютри\n\n\ncount1=0\ncount2=0\nfor process in $(ps)\ndo\ncount1=$(($count1 + 1))\nif test $count1 -lt 5\n then\n continue\nfi\ncount2=$(($count2 + 1))\n\nif test $count2 -eq 1\n then\n pid=$process\nfi\nif test $count2 -eq 4\n then\n cmd=$process\n echo $pid $cmd\n count2=0\nfi\ndone\n\n\nThe output would look like this:\n\n3218 ksh\n3207 sh\n3609 ps\n3608 ksh\n\n
The script uses two counters. The first, count1, is used to skip out the headings. The first four items in the list are headings, so if the counter is less than 5, it uses the continue command to skip all further commands for that item. The second counter is used to establish which column of the ps output is being processed. When it is column 1, it stores the PID in a variable. For column 4, it stores the command in a variable, echoes both variables to the user, and resets the count to zero.
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