[ILUG] quick bash loop?

[Jean Francois Bucas]

"find -exec" is a very good solution, especially for recursion, but
since the question is on a bash loop:

for f in *; do
   if [ -f "$f" ]; then
     java -jar j.jar "$f"
   fi
done


or if you want a wrapper for your jar program:

while [ -n "$1"]; do
  if [ -f "$1" ]; then
     java -jar j.jar "$1"
  fi
  shift
done

On 05/22/12 16:31, Thomas Pedoussaut wrote:
> find -exec is your friend
> 
> find /wherever -type f -mtime XXX ... -exec mycommand {} \;
> 
> On 22/05/12 17:15, Bernhard Rohrer wrote:
>> Hi guys
>>
>> may I ask for help with bash again please? I have a .jar that when told to work on * only works on the first file in the directory. 
>> Can anybody suggest a simple way to make it munch through the whole
directory?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> /Bernhard
>>
>> --

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Jean-Francois Bucas
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