Question

I have a program that is run from the command line like this

python program.py 100 rfile

How can I write a new script so that instead of running it with just the ‘100’ argument, I can run it consecutively with a list of arguments like [50, 100, 150, 200]?

Edit: The reason I am asking is that I want to record how ‘program.py’ executes with different arguments.

Answer 1

If you create a bash file like this

#!/bin/bash
for i in 1 2 3 4 5
do
  python program.py $i rfile
done

then do chmod +x on that file, when you run it, it will run these consecutively:

python program.py 1 rfile
python program.py 2 rfile
python program.py 3 rfile
python program.py 4 rfile
python program.py 5 rfile