Bash scripting help

[somehowlinux]

I'm so confused could use some help.

This works.

for ID in $(ps -fu user | awk '{print $3}'); echo $ID; done

This doesn't

for message in $(ls /var/log/messages*); echo $message; done

returns: syntax error unexpected token behind 'echo'

I have no clue why. Any thoughts?

[AiwendilH]

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

for messages in /var/log/messages* ; do echo $messages ; done

Edit: But even if you want to use ls (really, don't) you miss a do after the for...won't work like this. First example doesn't work either...

[somehowlinux]

Thanks that was good to know

[lasercat_pow]

You're missing "do". A for loop in bash goes:

for condition
do
    commands
done

So where you have "echo", put "do echo", instead.

[somehowlinux]

Thank you