I have a directorey with some .xls files in it. I want to extract some information from these files (I'll be doing that with a php program).

I need a shell script that will invoke this program repetitively for each of the files in the directory.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

thanks.

Try this:

#!/bin/sh
DIRECTORY=/excels/
ls $DIRECTORY |grep xls | while read FILE
do
<Program Name> $FILE
done

more commonly:

#!/bin/sh
DIRECTORY=/excels/
cd $DIRECTORY
for $FILE in *.xls
do
<Program Name> $FILE
done