[NTLUG:Discuss] Scripting help
Steve Litt
slitt at troubleshooters.com
Fri Sep 26 00:30:34 CDT 2014
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:02:55 -0500
Rusty Haddock <rusty at fe2o3.lonestar.org> wrote:
> I wasn't quite sure what you were asking for but here
> is my shot.
>
> If that list of hosts, one per line, can go into a file try this:
>
> for i in $(cat hostlist)
> do
> telnet $i
> done
>
> I'm starting to be won over by the $( commands ) notation
> instead of grave accents.
I thought that was valid only on bash, but it just worked for me on
dash, zsh and ksh. Maybe I'll start using that instead of backticks.
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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