include all files under a directory

fredao · #1 (**permalink**) 12-14-2006

I want to include all the subnet files under /etc/dhcpd/ to /etc/dhcpd.conf

so here is my content of dhcpd.conf

...
include "/etc/dhcpd/*";

however, the check-syntax reports syntax error, as they do not recognize the wildcard *, and display that " file /etc/dhcpd/* could not be found.

how can I use wildcard to refer to all the files in this directory?

fredao · #2 (**permalink**) 12-15-2006

is there any idea?

anbu23 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-15-2006

Code:

for dr in *
do
    echo "include $PWD/$dr;"
done

Copy the output of the above code and paste in to your file

fredao · #4 (**permalink**) 12-15-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by anbu23

Code:

for dr in *
do
    echo "include $PWD/$dr;"
done

Copy the output of the above code and paste in to your file

This is not the way I expect;
In addition, your code produce the following:

include /home/htao/trial/new/*;

anbu23 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-16-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by fredao

This is not the way I expect;
In addition, your code produce the following:

include /home/htao/trial/new/*;

Code:

cd /etc/dhcpd/
for dr in *
do
    echo "include $PWD/$dr;"
done

First move the directory where you have the files to include

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