[NTLUG:Discuss] Scripting help

[Leroy Tennison]

First of all, on this platform I don't have the ability to create a file 
such as hostlist.  I'm copying my list from Windows and pasting it into 
Putty.  What I tried was:

for i in $(host1
host2
host3); do telnet $i; done

and got "bash: couldn't find command host?" for each host.

Please keep up with the ideas, I'm trying every one of them.


On 09/26/2014 12:30 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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
>
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