shell script - process directory
 

I'm trying to write a script that will search a directory and do something with all of the files in the directory. Here is what i have so far.

for show in /mydirectory
do
echo $show #it will do more, just when i can get it to work.
done

when i run the script it shows /mydirectory instead of showing all of the files. Probably an easy fix, i'm not a programmer (not yet)

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'find' with the '-exec' option is your friend - you don't even have to take special care for spaces in file names :)

for file in `find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -print 2>/dev/null`
do
echo $file
done

I take it that besides echoing the filename, there are other processing to be done to the file, that's why you have used a for loop..? If not the above is simply
.

Thanks for your help guys. I got it working.

ghostdog74: Yep, see the in-line comment in the OP