Question

I am trying to list files from any number of directories by using command line arguments.
I am trying to pass the directory paths through the command line and display files that are in searched directories. Something like this.
“Directory: PATH1”
files
files
files

“Directory: PATH2”
files
files

etc.

So I am using $* to pass all of the command line arguments but it only displays files from the first listed directory.

#!/bin/bash


cd $*
for filename in *
do
        echo "Directory: $*"
        echo $filename
done

Answer 1

Something similar to this should work:

dirs=$*
for dir in $dirs
do
  echo "Directory: $dir"
  for filename in $(ls $dir)
  do
        echo $filename
  done
done