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I need to use 2 variables with for condition. For example,

cat days
01072017
02072017
03072017

cat hours
00:00
01:00
02:00
03:00

my shell script sample

 for i in `cat days` & j in `cat hours`
    do
    cat file | grep $i $j >data-$i-$j
    done

I want an output of 3 days * 4hours = 12 files redirected with corresponding data-day-hour

Rui F Ribeiro
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  • see http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/001 on reading files in bash... add few lines of `file` to question... you probably want to quote `$i $j` inside double quotes.. – Sundeep Jul 10 '17 at 11:08
  • If I'm reading your comment correctly you want nested loops, not a lock-step single loop through both files ? – Jeff Schaller Jul 10 '17 at 11:18

3 Answers3

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The standard solution for such problem is to make two loops:

for i in $(<days); do
     for j in $(<hours); do
           grep "$i $j" file > data-"$i-$j"
     done
done

Notice that I changed backticks to $() for command substitution, eliminated dead cats, and added double quotes.

jimmij
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You need to use a nested for loop 

   for i in `cat days` 
      do 
        for j in `cat hours`
        do
        cat file | grep  "$i $j"  >data-${i}-${j}
      done
    done
Kaushik Nayak
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You can use this one-liner command to run multiloop , for example you have to restart service on different hosts with different service parameters "i" is for host id and "j " is for service name parameter 

for i in 1 2 3 4;do  ssh host$i 'for j in A B C D; do sudo systemctl restart service_$j; done'; done

Note: you must change the "i" and "j" values to your requirements

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