Bash question

[nortis]

Using a bash scipt
How would you get the number of files in a directory.
Then run a for loop for each of the files in the directory, such that you can operate on the file?

[kyku]

There's a small subtlety in this question. Do you want files from subdirectories included or not?

[eugrus]

http://www.uwgb.edu/shayw/courses/370/scr06.sh

[nortis]

Thanks, That's pretty much what i was trying to do.

[techieMoe]

The Forum Rules clearly state that we will not do your homework for you, and this thread looks suspiciously like a homework question.

Dont give us YOUR homework questions - Dont be so bloody lazy. If you post your homework for someone else todo, dont be supprised or get upset if your post is removed. Asking for a brief pointer on a *particular area* IS ok. Verbatim Copying of multiple assignment questions and attaching a note at the bottom saying "please help me" is not. We were all at school/college/uni once upon a time, and we know what homework questions look like

eugrus, I understand that you were trying to be helpful, but posting a program already written for this person is not a precedent that should be set in these forums. If indeed the original poster has asked a homework question, you've effectively helped this person cheat, and therefore not actually learn anything.

[eugrus]

techieMoe

posting a program already written

it is the way to make one understand the technology
not more

homework questions

I do not think it is so.
This is just a thing people really often need, while writing scripts.

[techieMoe]

I'll leave this to a moderator. As far as I'm concerned this entire post is against the forum rules and should be taken off.

[jasonlambert]

topic locked as the original question has been answered and i don't forsee the conversation going anywhere constructive