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Old 08-22-2013
How to concatenate Path name to a variable??

I have the path name in a Variable

Ex:
$XML_PATH_FLAG = /ebs/appl/u00/universe01/inbound/universeorders

Now I have to pick up ALL XML files in this directory . In other words

I have to pick up ALL the files

/ebs/appl/u00/universe01/inbound/universeorders/F1.xml
/ebs/appl/u00/universe01/inbound/universeorders/F2.xml
/ebs/appl/u00/universe01/inbound/universeorders/F222.xml
/ebs/appl/u00/universe01/inbound/universeorders/F3.xml
.......
/ebs/appl/u00/universe01/inbound/universeorders/Fn.xml

so how do i this in the below code?

Code:
 
echo $XML_PATH_FLAG*.xml    ## how do I concatenate here?
for file in $XML_PATH_FLAG*.xml   ## how do I concatenate here?
 
do
 
--
--
done

# 2  
Old 08-22-2013
Try
Code:
${XML_PATH_FLAG}/*.xml

This User Gave Thanks to RudiC For This Post:
# 3  
Old 08-22-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Try
Code:
${XML_PATH_FLAG}/*.xml

This really helped..
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