Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all,

I'm trying to automate some tasks and while I've got the script itself working, I'm having difficulties with automatic file detection and associated variable setting...

for example, in a directory I've got several files... something along the lines of:

xis0_NAME_src.file
xis1_NAME_bkg.file
xis0_NAME_bkg.file
xis1_NAME_src.file

The NAME segment will change from use to use, but I'm looking to make the script automatically detect which file is xis0_*_src.file, which is xis0_*_src.file etc and attach it to each. So far I've tried using something along the lines of:

Code:

xis0_src=`find . -name "xis0*src*"`

but I end up with:

find: xis0_asd_src.pi: unknown option

Any pointers as to a more efficent way of setting this up? CHeers in advance!

Probably it's finding more than one hit, so it's trying to store multiple lines in a single variable. Perhaps if we knew more about the objective we could better craft a reply. You may be looking down the lines of a loop such that

Code:

for file in `find . -name "xis0*src*" -print|sort`
do
   whatever logic you want
done

I added the sort as the find will search (probably) in inode order and if there are subdirectories involved, that could get very messy.


I hope that this gets you started, but post more infor on what you want to do with them and someone may pop up more complete code.




Robin
Blackburn/Liverpool
UK

@u5j84
Could you please clarify ...
What input to you have ?
what output do you need ?
or what behaviour do you expect ?