Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi again,

What i'm trying to accomplish here is search a large directory for certain filesames, read from a txt file and looping through it.

For instance, one of my target names from the loop file is:
1ad55f47-c342-496b-a46d-ba7de0f1b434

My loop is constructed thusly, run in a directory with similarly named files:

Code:

while read i; do ls *$i*; done < /tmp/uids.txt

This leads to the following output:

Code:

*: No such file or directory-ba7de0f1b434

The first section of the filenames has been entirely truncated from the search. Tried putting quotes around the variable, same results.

If i do something like:

Code:

while read f; do echo $f; done < /tmp/uids.txt

, the filenames are returned correctly, so somehow ls is screwing me up.

Works for me on Solaris...

Code:

bash-3.00# while read i; do ls *$i*; done < /tmp/uids.txt
1ad55f47-c342-496b-a46d-ba7de0f1b434
*2ad55f47-c342-496b-a46d-ba7de0f1b434*: No such file or directory

Could it be that the file "1ad55f47-c342-496b-a46d-ba7de0f1b434" does not exist in the directory you are running you script from? ;-)

It doesn't in this instance, but the fact that the command output is so weird would seem to suggest that ls is mangling the search somehow. Also, I'll need the error output in its entirety in order to match up against my target list which files didn't exist, having the first few bits stripped off is no good here.