Hi,

I am trying to read all the files in a directory into an array, in different stages. However the code below:

#Checks the SQL Directory for files to be released

#Do the Packages Specification before the bodies
counter=0

while read packageSpecName
do
packageSpecs[$counter]=`basename $packageSpecName`

counter=$counter+1
done < `ls ${sqlDirectory}/*.pks`

Does not work, it gives an error almost like it is trying to execute the files in the directory instead of save them to the array.

Error:

./release.sh[15]: /usr/home/oracle92/sosa/scripts/rep.pks^J/usr/home/oracle92/sosa/scripts/test.pks: cannot open

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

if files are read into an array use something like this

Thanks Matrix,

I will give that a go, can you tell me why it would not work on my example above? I would like to understand what I am doing wrong if possible.

Yeah that works, thanks. If anyone know why my solution didn't can you let me know. I like to learn the reasons behind why not to do things!

`ls file` expands to the list of selected files

and

done < `ls files`

with the above, while is reading from the selected files and from the list of files

Kinda of the back of this, and not sure if it should be in a seperate post. But if they ls does not find any files I get the following outputted to the screen:

/usr/home/oracle92/sosa/scripts/*.trc: No such file or directory

I would rather it did nothing, is it possible to make a check for files before using the ls? As 'ls' is really the only way I know of doing it.