How to create a text file for each files found in a directory?

Question

I'm new to unix and I'm having a hard time doing this loop.

I have a directory with a list of files and I'm able to list all of those files in a text file.

I have a text file that contains the following contents:

• FileName01.xml
• FileName02.xml
• FileName03.xml
• FileNameNN.xml

I want to create a text file separately for each of those contents. The output should be like this:

-File name of the text file: Filename01.txt -Content of the text file: FileName01.xml

And so on and so forth

I'm trying using for loop to create a text file for each of those contents and I can't seem to make it.

This is the current script that I'm working on:

#!/bin/bash
ls /directory/input > filelist.txt
for f in filelist.txt;
do
    printf f > 'file_*.txt'
done

Answer 1

I suggest

#!/bin/bash

shopt -s nullglob

for f in /directory/input/*.xml; do
  bn=${f##*/}
  printf '%s\n' "$bn" > "${f%.xml}.txt"
done

See Shell Parameter Expansion for an explanation of the prefix and suffix removal syntax.