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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Variable with multiple values Post 302841895 by rbatte1 on Thursday 8th of August 2013 06:33:15 AM
Old 08-08-2013
I'm a little unclear what you are trying to acheive. Here are my thoughts on what I think you may be looking for:-

Is it just to detect if a file of that name exists?
Code:
if [ -r *.flg ]
then
   echo "Hit"
else
   echo "Miss"
fi

If you want a list of files to loop through:-
Code:
for file in *.flg
do
   MASK=1     # Or whatever you want to set it to
   whatever
done

If you want to assign all the names for files to the variable MASK comma seaparated:-
Code:
for file in *.flg
do
   MASK="$MASK,$file"
done
MASK="${MASK#,}"          # Remove leading comma

Am I anywhere near your requirement?




Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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