Shell Programming and Scripting

I realize you have already solved your problem, but I will share a different solution that may be of use at some point:

Code:

for filename in ./*; do
    [ ! -f "$filename" ] && continue 
    file=${filename##*/}
    case $file in
        nexus*) printf "%s\n" "$file" >> test.log;;
    esac
done

Instead of wrapping the body of the for-loop within the file test, I test the inverse. If it is not a file, skip the rest of the loop's statements. This keeps the code from being needlessly idented (not a big deal here, but it can be with a more complex script).

The case statement is portable and can be easily extended to handle different actions for different patterns (or multiple patterns for the same case).

You probably want to use ${filename##*/} instead of ${filename#*/}. They both give the same result when there's only one slash in the pathname, but, when there are multiple, the former will return the basename of the file while the latter will only strip the first directory component.

Personally, I don't use echo when handling indeterminate data (like filenames, user input, etc), because problems can arise if the data looks like an option (and -- to disable option processing isn't supported).

Regards,
Alister