for cycle



hello,

i have files in a dir.

i what to create a for cycle that will do this

for <condition> do
file=`ls <directory> | tail -1`
echo $file
mv -f $file <another dir>

done

what i want to now is what should i put in the <condition>. the condition i want is that the for will execute until there is no more files in the directory

quote:
originally posted by nagomes
hello,

i have files in a dir.

i what to create a for cycle that will do this

for <condition> do
file=`ls <directory> | tail -1`
echo $file
mv -f $file <another dir>
done

what i want to now is what should i put in the <condition>. the condition i want is that the for will execute until there is no more files in the directory

thanks


if you want to move all files from one directory to another

1. why are you asking almost exactly the same thing again?

code:
for file in <directory>/*
do
   echo $file
   mv -f $file <another dir>
done
the is a problem with this for loop : if the directory is empty body of the loop is executed nevertheless with the variable file set to '<directory>/*'

another solution with the for loop :

code:
for file in `ls -1 <directory>/* 2>/dev/null'
do
   echo $file
   mv -f $file <another dir>
done
you can also use a while loop :

code:
ls -1 <directory>/* 2>/dev/null | \
while read file
   echo $file
   mv -f $file <another dir>
done