ls and take each file as argument

melanie_pfefer · #1 (**permalink**) 01-24-2007

I have LOGFILES=`ls *.log` and want to egrep each entry of LOGFILES one after the other:

egrep $LOGFILE....

how to do that??

thx

anbu23 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-24-2007

Code:

cd /dir1/log_dir2
for fil in *.log
do
   egrep "string" $fil
done

melanie_pfefer · #3 (**permalink**) 01-24-2007

actually, the whole story is:

LOGFILES=`ls *.log | egrep -v "back|BS"`

and I want to do egrep $LOGFILE....

thanks in advance.

anbu23 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-24-2007

Code:

ls *.log | egrep -v "back|BS" > tmp
egrep -f tmp file

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