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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting WildCard serach for files in a directory Post 302368210 by frans on Wednesday 4th of November 2009 10:16:38 AM
Old 11-04-2009
Code:
function TestFiles ()
{   for I in testapp newfile obsolete
     do   ls file$I_* || return 1
     done
}

I don't know if you want to examine multiple directories.
You can use this simle statement in a terminal and look if it works
Code:
for I in testapp newfile obsolete; do ls file$I_* || echo "not found" > test.txt; done

 

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