Help with while read please!

[bcooperizcool]

I have two text files (names and contents).
so my script is:

if [[ -f "/Applications/$name/$contents" ]];
then mv "/Applications/$names/$contents" "/Applications/$names/1$contents"; cp "$theme_base/$theme/Folders/$names/$contents" "/Applications/$names/$contents"; echo "Setting up custom $names images";
else echo "No custom images for $names";
fi
done 3< $theme_base/.names.txt 4< $theme_base/.contents.txt

Instead of it going through each one for both files, I would need the $names variable to stay the same while it reads through the contents text file, and then go to the next line on the names file and repeat the whole process.

Thanks!

[Vaphell]

without trying to understand what you are doing exactly i made an example with 2 whiles, 1 inside the other, where list.txt stores the names to open and for each name appropriate file is iterated


#!/bin/bash

while read name
do
while read content
do
echo $name: $content
done < $name.txt
done < list.txt

example output:

stuff1: some stuff
stuff1: other stuff
stuff2: omg
stuff2: omgomgomg!

[bcooperizcool]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! :D
Its working! :D