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Old 11-09-2012
Searching for file names with variables
Hello everyone

We have a problem about searching and copying files with variables.

we have variables like $year $jday $date and we want to search the files whose name contain these variables.

we tried *$year*$jday*$date or with ? instead of *


thank you everyone!!!
# 2  
Old 11-09-2012
You should probably give us examples of the filename patterns you're trying to match
# 3  
Old 11-09-2012
one kind of file name and its path is:
Code:
/media/DATA1/receiver/rc/DATA/INVERSION/ARMT/baz_100_135/dist_60_90/09_245_0800.eqr

we set the variables

set year=`cut -c 1-2 data`
set jday=`cut -c 4-6 data`
set hour=`cut -c 8-9 data`

the other file name is
Code:
 /media/DATA1/receiver/rc/DATA/INVERSION/ARMT/2009.245.08.00.00.ARMT.eqr

These two files are the same but file names are different and we want the first kind of file to replace with the second type of the file name.
# 4  
Old 11-09-2012
Code:
find  /media/DATA1/receiver/rc/DATA/INVERSION/ARMT -name \*$year\*$jday\*$hour\*

# 5  
Old 11-09-2012
We tried te way you said but it could not find the files under the directories..

Here is our code and the result..


Code:
[gurbuz@localhost INVERSION]$ cat stack.csh
#!/bin/csh

foreach dir (`ls -d ARMT`)
cd $dir

foreach drr (`ls -d *baz*`)
cd $drr
echo $drr

foreach drc (`ls -d *dist*`)
cd $drc
echo $drc


ls *_*eqr* > data
set year=`cut -c 1-2 data`
set jday=`cut -c 4-6 data`
set hour=`cut -c 8-9 data`

cd ..
end    
cd ..




cp \*$year\*$jday\*$hour\* /$drr/$drc 

end
cd ..
end


[gurbuz@localhost INVERSION]$ csh st
stack.csh    stack.csh-p  
[gurbuz@localhost INVERSION]$ csh stack.csh
baz_100_135
dist_30_60
ls: No match.
dist_60_90
cp: target `/baz_100_135/dist_60_90' is not a directory
baz_20_90
dist_60_90
cp: target `/baz_20_90/dist_60_90' is not a directory
baz_300_360
dist_60_90
cp: cannot stat `*12*145*22*': No such file or directory

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