Simple Shell Script Help

[skiba]

Hey guys, I need a hand with a simple shell script (bash). I have a file that contains a list of servers each on a separate line, what I want to do is use each hostname as a variable to log into, create a directory, exit and repeat. Now I gather I probably need to use a while loop or for loop but am not sure of the correct way to get the hostnames into an array? Do I need to cat it?
Any pointers much appreciated.

 

[ByteJuggler]

Given a file words.txt containing

word1
word2
word3

the following command:

for word  in $(cat words.txt); do echo "word is: $word" ; done

will produce the following output:

word is: test1
word is: test2
word is: test3

So you probably want

for dir  in $(cat dirs.txt); do mkdir $dir ; done

(Well, you need to sort out the login bits of course........ )

Hope that helps.

 

[skiba]

excellent thanks, will have a "bash" at this