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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Expand Variables and Wildcards into another variable. Post 303035138 by chetanojha on Wednesday 15th of May 2019 05:43:23 AM
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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