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Old 09-15-2006
What wrong with the variable definition

i am using the below script and trying to move files in that directory in that pattern to archive. But it doesn;t seem to take the metacharacters. Please sugggest.

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sourcefilepattern=$1_$2_???_$OLD_DT.dat
for file in $sourcefilepattern ; do
mv "$file" $srcarchive
compress $srcarchive/"$file"
Debug output:

Quote:
sourcefilepattern=AUD02_TLG_DLY_???_20060821.dat
+ mv AUD02_TLG_DLY_???_20060821.dat /amdata/srcfiles/Archive
mv: AUD02_TLG_DLY_???_20060821.dat: cannot access: No such file or directory
 
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