BASH read directory contents into an array and execute command

[rolfbruge]

I ran this simple bash script through shellcheck.net and no errors but does not function.

The objective is to read downloaded *.deb packages stored within the directory into an array and install each element of the array with dpkg:

running the ls line lists the pacakages, but output is "no such file or directory" or "permission denied" even though cli is executed using sudo.



#!/bin/bash

FILES=$( ls "/home/linuxuser/pkgs" )

for element in "${FILES[@]}"
do
sudo dpkg -i "$element"
done

Being relatively new to this issue can someone give me specific pointers?

[currentshaft]

Don't use ls to populate variable names, use find.

for element in $(find /home/linuxuser/pkgs -type f -name "*.deb") ; do sudo dpkg -i "$element" ; done

[rolfbruge]

Thank you currentshaft for the pointer, it worked nicely.