Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

How do i check if there are any files present in the folder with some specific starting string.

For eg :- I have used this where Source_File is filename parameter.

Code:

if [ ! -r ${SOURCE_FILE} ]
  then
  return 2
  fi

But in my case the source file name is not constant. The only constant thing is that files with starting string 'XX_IN*' are to be searched.

Please help

Chetan

Code:

Folder1
  FileA
  DoorB
  DoorC
Folder2
  DoorD
  DoorE
Folder3
  FileB
  FileC
Dir1
  FileD
  DoorF

Assuming the above names and structure, what exactly are you trying to do?
Please note that
Folder and Dir names are for the various folders.
File and Door names are the respective filenames.

So, for instance, are you trying to find all filenames that begin "File" in any directory or only those named "Folder"?

If I have this all wrong, please clarify with examples.

Yes, exactly...! I want to search in Folder and count if there are any files with files with filename like FILE*

Could you do

Code:

find . -name "*.* | grep "File"

or

Code:

find .Folder -name "*.* | grep "File"

go to that folder and try this command

ls | grep 'XX_IN*'

Thanks,
Pragyan

Code:

ls | grep "^SOME"    # start with ...
# =
ls SOME*
# =
echo SOME*
# =
find . -depth 1 -name "SOME*"

Thanks a lot all of you.

This solution finally worked for me...... Here I find and count the number of files matching the start string....!!

Code:

ls -l |grep 'XX_GT'| wc -l

Cheers