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bashshellunixxmlstarlet

Running command on each line in file

I have FramesList.txt, the file holds 5 .xml filenames. There isn't a path generated because the list is being created by an xml ls > FramesList.txt command.

I want to run an xmlstarlet command on each .xml file listed.

FramesList.txt
FR0391W.xml
FR0921S.xml
FR0193A.xml
FR0192B.xml
FR0132E.xml

How would that look? Is it a loop?

Solution

  • You can use xargs:

    xargs < FramesList.txt -n 1 xmlstartet
#       ^               ^   ^
#       |               |   Command to run
#       |               Max number of arguments (xmlstartet will be called for
#       |               each line in input file)
#       Input file