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how to read files listed by ls command one by one in bash?

I want to read all the files in a particular directory, and I want to read it one by one.

Here's what i've done so far. ls successfully get all the files from a specified directory, but could not give the file names to me one by one. It Echos the files one time only. I want to get it one by one because I need to do some parsing and use it somehwere. 

#!/bin/sh

echo Content-type: application/json
echo ""

for output in "ls /home/myComputer/Desktop/*";
do
echo $output
done
Solution

  • You can do

    for output in /home/myComputer/Desktop/*
do
    echo $output
done

    If there's any risk that /home/myComputer/Desktop is empty, please follow @JIDs advice in the comments below.