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Old 09-14-2011
Input two variable on single line
Can we input two variable on single line that separate by space example user input "list jpg" it will list all jpg files in current directory
# 2  
Old 09-14-2011
Code:
 
echo "list jpg" | while read extn1 extn2; do ls -l *$extn2; done # will list only jpg files

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Old 09-14-2011
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Originally Posted by itkamaraj
Code:
 
echo "list jpg" | while read extn1 extn2; do ls -l *$extn2; done # will list only jpg files

Sorry I mean in Perl
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Old 09-15-2011
Code:
 
$ cat test.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl
$files = "list jpg";
@patterns = split(/ /,$files);
@files = <*$patterns[1]>;
foreach $file (@files) {
   print $file . "\n";
}

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