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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers script takes the whole filename instead of just extension Post 302318034 by methyl on Wednesday 20th of May 2009 02:49:48 PM
Old 05-20-2009
Try using single quotes to stop the shell expanding the "*" .
The line containing the "tr" command appears to be pointless.
When processing a list of filenames a while loop is better than a for loop because it can deal with unlimited names and filenames containing space characters.
Hope this helps.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
PATH1="/abc/xyz"
for THISTEMPLATE in '*.csv' '*.txt'
do
    echo "thistemp = $THISTEMPLATE"
    find $PATH1 -name "$THISTEMPLATE" -type f | while read OLDFILE
    do
        echo "oldfile= $OLDFILE"
    done
done

 

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