[geeks] ksh for loop question

[David Passmore]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:54:33AM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> ok, i have a list of files that unfortunately have spaces in them.  i'd like
> to get this list of files from a server using wget, so i was looking to just
> use a for loop to go and get them all, for example:
> 
> for files in `cat file_list.txt`; do
>   wget "http://www.server.com/$files"
> done
> 
> this of course fails misserably since for splits by whitespace.  how do i do
> something like this, but split by line not by whitespace?  and please don't
> say perl.

Here is a shell script that will do it...

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#!/bin/sh

cat file_list.txt | perl -n -e 'system("wget http://www.server.com/$_");'

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David