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Old 10-10-2008
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I guess it can't find anything since you can't write a regular expression for grep like you use metacharacters in the shell. Try this:

Code:
file="TEST01_.*\.mqsc"

Your former code meant _* which stands for zero or <n> occurences of _. And just a dot means any single character, not a dot. So the dot has to be escaped.

Oh and maybe use "ls -1" to have 1 file per row.