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Old 05-15-2019
Expand Variables and Wildcards into another variable.

Dear Forum members,


I am having trouble getting the complete filename (and directory path) in a variable.



Output directory mentioned in the code have three files:

Code:
DISPLAY_CITY_DETAILS_15-05-2019-08-29-26_MIGRATE_london.out
DISPLAY_CITY_DETAILS_15-05-2019-08-29-26_MIGRATE_paris.out
DISPLAY_CITY_DETAILS_15-05-2019-08-29-26_MIGRATE_rome.out

******************************************************
Code is as shown below:
I am tryin to get get the full path of the above files (including directory path in variable file_path).

Code:

output_dir=$HOME'/country/city/'

while IFS= read -r city_name
do
    
 ## None of the below command  worked.    



     file_path=`${output_dir}/*MIGRATE*${city_name}*.out`
    # eval file_path=`${output_dir}/*MIGRATE*${city_name}*.out`
    # file_path=${eval echo `ls ${output_dir} | grep "MIGRATE"`}
    # eval file_path=`ls ${output_dir} | grep "MIGRATE"`
       
    echo $file_path
 
done < ${city_list}    

##  city_list is the list of cities for which I want to display details

Can anybody help with the command?

Thanks.
 

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NAME
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new ( %params ) The %params can include dir, serializer and deserializer options. It will check to be sure that the dir is writable for you. dir This is the directory to store the session data files in, if nothing is provided then "/tmp" is used. serializer This is a CODE reference that implements the serialization logic. The CODE ref gets two arguments, the $value, which is a HASH reference to be serialized, and the $file_path to save it to. It is not expected to return anything. deserializer This is a CODE reference that implements the deserialization logic. The CODE ref gets one argument, the $file_path to load the data from. It is expected to return a HASH reference. BUGS
All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT. AUTHOR
Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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