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# 8  
Old 06-28-2009
If you give *.ini in the command line, shell will expand it, so your script get list of files, not string ex. *.ini
Code:
[ $# -lt 1 ] && ls -altr && exit
for f in $*
do
    # but remember, if argument is directory, ls will so it ...
    ls -altr $f
    # but you can test file/dir
    # regular file only
    [ -f $f ] && ls -altr $f && exit
    # directory
    [ -d $f ] && ls -dla $f && exit
done

But if you like to give '*.ini' for script and not like to shell expand it, then command line is
sh script '*.ini'
Code:
[ $# -lt 1 ] && ls -altr && exit
ls -altr $1

# 9  
Old 06-30-2009
i got it to work by assigning the parameter to another variable.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
biff n
cd /u02/app/eatv/dev/out
CURDIR=`pwd`
pfile=$1
echo directory listing of $CURDIR
echo
if [ -z "$pfile" ]; then
  ls -latr
else
  ls -latr $pfile
fi

Code:
$ sh dir_list_eatv_out.sh
directory listing of /u02/app/eatv/dev/out

total 16
drwxrwxr-x    4 oracle   eatvgrp         256 Jun 19 09:41 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 ccalftdv ccalogrp          7 Jun 30 09:30 sample.csv
-rw-r--r--    1 ccalftdv ccalogrp          7 Jun 30 09:30 sample.txt
drwxrwxr-x    2 oracle   eatvgrp         256 Jun 30 09:31 .
$ sh dir_list_eatv_out.sh *.txt
directory listing of /u02/app/eatv/dev/out

-rw-r--r--    1 ccalftdv ccalogrp          7 Jun 30 09:30 sample.txt
$ sh dir_list_eatv_out.sh *.csv
directory listing of /u02/app/eatv/dev/out

-rw-r--r--    1 ccalftdv ccalogrp          7 Jun 30 09:30 sample.csv
$



---------- Post updated at 10:01 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:53 AM ----------

thank you kshji that works too. on the same code you posted how do i add a parameter for the directory? yet it works if the parameter i entered is a combination of directory/file extension name. but for readability purpose we use the output as a log file to keep track of the files on the directory. we wanted to see something that on the first line of display it shows the directory name then followed by the files.

Code:
  directory listing of /u02/app/eatv/dev/out

  total 16
  drwxrwxr-x    4 oracle   eatvgrp         256 Jun 19 09:41 ..
  -rw-r--r--    1 ccalftdv ccalogrp          7 Jun 30 09:30 sample.csv
  -rw-r--r--    1 ccalftdv ccalogrp          7 Jun 30 09:30 sample.txt
  drwxrwxr-x    2 oracle   eatvgrp         256 Jun 30 09:31 .
  $

# 10  
Old 07-06-2009
If there are "*.ini" files in the directory where you run your script, the *.ini will expand to a list of the files in your current directory before the script even changes directory to
/u02/app/eatv/dev/out.
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