Question

I have a bash script in which i define a certain path as such:

MY_PATH=/to/my/path

I also have a set of directories within MY_PATH and I store these directories in an array, as such:

DIRECTORIES="/dir1/
/dir2/
/dir3/"

What I want to do is iterate over all the $DIRECTORIES in $MY_PATH, so I tried this:

for dir in $MY_PATH$DIRECTORIES
do
    echo "Processing $dir"
end

However, this gives the following undesired output:

Processing /to/my/path/dir1/           #Correct!
Processing /dir2/                      #What I want: Processing /to/my/path/dir2/
Processing /dir3/                      #What I want: Processing /to/my/path/dir3/

Is there any way to prevent iteration over $MY_PATH while preserving iteration over $DIRECTORIES so that I can achieve the desired output (see above)?

Answer 1

for dir in $DIRECTORIES; do
  path="$MY_PATH/$dir"
  echo "Processing $path"
done