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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Listing a directory via a script using variables Post 302245534 by gugs on Friday 10th of October 2008 10:05:21 AM
Old 10-10-2008
I was incorrect

ls -1 C:/cygwin/var/log/img/aut/ | grep TEST01_*\.mqsc produced no output.

Anyway, instead of file="TEST01_*.mqsc", file="TEST01" should suffice as I am only interested in files that start with "TEST", * is for the date and .mqsc is consistent for all files.


However, I was making a silly error in the script. All I had to do was:

file="TEST01"
echo "File = $file"
ls -1 $dir | grep "$file" > test.txt

Thanks for helping me
 

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truncate OPTION... FILE... DESCRIPTION
Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size A FILE argument that does not exist is created. If a FILE is larger than the specified size, the extra data is lost. If a FILE is shorter, it is extended and the extended part (hole) reads as zero bytes. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --no-create do not create any files -o, --io-blocks treat SIZE as number of IO blocks instead of bytes -r, --reference=RFILE base size on RFILE -s, --size=SIZE set or adjust the file size by SIZE bytes --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit The SIZE argument is an integer and optional unit (example: 10K is 10*1024). Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y (powers of 1024) or KB,MB,... (pow- ers of 1000). SIZE may also be prefixed by one of the following modifying characters: '+' extend by, '-' reduce by, '<' at most, '>' at least, '/' round down to multiple of, '%' round up to multiple of. AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady. REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report truncate translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
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