Thanks Don for the reply.

If I put just a ; after the first 2 lines, then it works like a charm. Here is my final version of the command:

Code:

for dir in $(find . -type d -name 'pro*'); do ls -l "$dir"/*.txt "$dir"/*.prg "$dir"/.*.txt "$dir"/.*.prg; done

May I ask what is the difference between "$dir"/*.txt and "$dir"/.*.txt in the ls command above ?

To answer your question the / in the first parameter will list the directory in which the files were found or where no matching files were found. Without the /, I get a long list of matched filenames without knowing which directory they reside in. To make this work, I had to use -print option in the find command.

Thanks
Subhash