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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use wild card character in string concatenation--please help Post 302304198 by vasavi_cherku on Sunday 5th of April 2009 05:12:29 PM
Old 04-05-2009
How to use wild card character in string concatenation--please help
Hi All,

I'm new to shell scripting. Please help me in achieving this

I am trying to a find regular expression that need to pick a file with begin with the below format and this code is called in xml file.

currently the script accepts:
mask="CLIENT_ID+'_ADHSUITE_IN_'+date2str(now,'MMddyy','US/Eastern')+'.txt'"

But it should accept mask in this format

2595_ADHSUITE_IN_ANNWEL_030309_2009-02-10_15-12-46-000_648.TXT715.outpgp_out

where CLIENT_ID=2595. How to place wild card character '*' in the below to accept file in the above format. here is what i made changes.

mask="CLIENT_ID+'_ADHSUITE_IN_'*+date2str(now,'MMddyy','US/Eastern')*+'.TXT'*+'.outpgp_out'"


Thanks in advance

Vasavi
 

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