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create multiple file with content in linux with user input

Time:11-20

I'm new in bash scripting and I'm trying to create a bash script which can create multiple file with content (around 10000 lines [no matters what text]) but with user input. I made a script which create files (see below) but how can I fill each file with 10000 lines? Thank you in advance!

#!/bin/bash
echo How many files do you want to create?
read numberOfFiles
echo
echo Please enter the files name with should start:
read nameForFiles
echo

for i in $(seq 1 $numberOfFiles)
do
        touch $nameForFiles-$i.txt
done

CodePudding user response:

Replace your touch command with this:

for ((j=0; j<9999; j  )); do echo "Cyrus was here"; done > "$nameForFiles-$i.txt"

CodePudding user response:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

read -rp "How many files do you want to create? " numberOfFiles
echo
read -rp "Please enter the file name: " nameForFiles
echo

for ((n=1;n<=numberOfFiles;n  )); do
    for i in {1..1000}; do
        echo "line $i" >> "${nameForFiles}"-"${n}".txt
    done
done
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