[SOLVED] Perform an action on a list/array of variables from user input in bash

[eamesj]

Hi all

I've a bash script to read user input and perform a task on it. But what id like is for the user to be able to enter a list and perform the action on each of the list for as many as are entered.

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter the list"
texta
textb
textc

read list
foreach
do
a_script text[a-c]
done

hope that makes sense...

can anyone help?
Thanks,

[eamesj]

Solved courtesy of David the H @ linuxquestions.org

for information...

echo 'Enter your array elements one at a time, followed by newlines.'
echo 'Type "exit" to finish.'

while read -r input ; do

[[ $input == exit ]] && break
array+=( "$input" )

done

echo 'You entered the following array elements:'

printf '%s\n' "${array[@]}"

cheers Dave.