Shell Programming and Scripting

$ls
abc.dat   def.dat   ghi.dat

ls -1 *.dat | \
while read fname
do
     echo "Current file is: [${fname}]."
done
# Or you can use "find"
find . -name "*.dat" -type f | \
while read fname
do
     echo "Current file is: [${fname}]."
done

for filename in `find .  -type f -name "*.dat" -exec ls -1 {} \; | sed 's/\.\///'`
do
echo $filename
done

find .  -type f -name "*.dat" -exec ls -1 {} \; | sed 's/\.\///' | while read LINE
do
        echo "$LINE"
done

find . -name "*.dat" -type f -printf "%f\n" | \
while read fname
do
     echo "Current file is: [${fname}]."
done