#!/bin/bash # Read in everything in directory entries=$(ls) # echo $entries # for testing # check each item in dir echo "Usernames:" for entry in $entries do if [[ "$entry" == *.pub ]] then username=${entry%.pub} usernames="$usernames $username" fi done echo $usernames sed -i "" "s/@demo_project_users = .*/@demo_project_users =$usernames/g" example.conf