regular expression go into a folder

jimmy_y · #1 (**permalink**) 11-02-2009

Hi Everyone,

I have two folders /root/jul/a.txt and /root/july/a.txt. I have $month="jul", so use this methold, i only can go into the first folder. is there any way, i can do like $month="jul*", means can go to both folders? becuase the month folder, sometimes is jul, or july, or nov, november, or nove, or even NOVE, NOV. How to handle this case.

Thanks

bakunin · #2 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

You can't go to "two folders", because you can only be at one place at a time - thats true for physics as well as Unix. ;-))

What you can do is to go to one folder after the other. Here is an example script:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

month="jul"
dir=""

ls -ld "/root/${month}*" | while read dir ; do
     cd "$dir"
     print - "now in directory: $PWD"
     ls -l
     print - "---------------"
     cd -
done

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