Bash Script using Foreach

[singlespeed]

Q1) is foreach a valid command in bash scripting?

Q2) assuming it is what is the syntax to get a foreach loop to read the contents of a file as the input?

for example sudo code...

foreach name (read from file "names.txt")
echo $name
end

[Hayl]

the syntax is

for foo in foobar ; do
<block of code here>
done

[Hayl]

ok. after some messing around.

here is what you need.

use the while command.

#!/bin/bash

while read newline; do
echo $newline
done < /etc/fstab

substitute a variable or another file for the < /etc/fstab

[rid3r]

yep it's
for name in `cat names.txt | <grep-sed-awk-whatever>` ; do echo $name ; done

[singlespeed]

while our internet was down due to fallout from the NE Power Outage, this is what I came up with.....

#! /bin/sh

tables=`/bin/grep -v Tables tables.txt`

for table in $tables
{
/usr/bin/mysql telaurus -ufaa --password=******* -e "Show columns from $table" > /root/$table.txt
mail foo@foo.org -s "$table" < /root/$table.txt
}
end

Thanks for all the suggestions though, I'll take a look at those approaches for my own education later!

[Hayl]

i bet there are a dozen more ways to do it. :)