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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:32:25 -0500
To: Xpression <admin@atenas.cult.cu>
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On Jan 12, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Xpression wrote:
[ ...a question on how to change a shell script... ]

Try:

#! /bin/sh
path=/some/dir
if !([ -f $path/this.one ]); then
     touch $path/this.one
     for file in $path/file1 $path/file2 $path/file3; do
        echo "-----------------------------------------" >> 
$path/this.one
        echo "   $file" >> $path/this.one
        echo "-----------------------------------------" >> 
$path/this.one
        cat $file >> $path/this.one
     done
fi

Also note that using a local variable named $path is not a good idea, 
since $PATH is highly important.  :-)  $path and $PATH are seperate in 
/bin/sh, but many other shells automangle the colon-seperated $PATH 
into the word-list format used by $path, and vice-versa.

-- 
-Chuck