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I had the need today to read in a list of patterns from a file, expand them and then operate upon each file all from within a shell script. Apparently there is a <a href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0210/6m6nb7mas?a=view">shell built-in for csh</a>, but I didn't want to learn csh at that point. The eventual solution was to run an extra shell with the -c argument.

Example:
<pre>#!/bin/bash
FILES=`cat patterns.txt`
for pattern in $FILES; do
    bash -c "ls -l ${pattern}"
done</pre>
Initial content import 2010-03-11 20:30:27 +00:00			`I had the need today to read in a list of patterns from a file, expand them and then operate upon each file all from within a shell script. Apparently there is a <a href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0210/6m6nb7mas?a=view">shell built-in for csh</a>, but I didn't want to learn csh at that point. The eventual solution was to run an extra shell with the -c argument.`

			`Example:`
			`<pre>#!/bin/bash`
			FILES=`cat patterns.txt`
			`for pattern in $FILES; do`
			`bash -c "ls -l ${pattern}"`
			`done</pre>`