Shell Programming and Scripting

I need a shell script to search different files in a directory i will pass the filename as argument to shell script
Please help me regarding this

If it's just for quick and dirty command line and you don't really need a script, you can just do for example:

Code:

find .| grep -E "file1|file2|file3|file4"

Hi zaxxon,

Thx for u r post i need to do extra business logic in the script but initially first i need to pass the argument (ie filename ) to the script so that i can replace in u r command given

find .| grep -E "file1|file2|file3|file4"

for ex as u said the file1 will be dyanamically given by the user it is not constant so i need a script where in which i can take the argument from the userinput and need to implement the business logic hope u do the needful

Post what you have attempted so far.

i think below sample might help you,

Afaik he wants a specific directory and look for multiple filenames and is look for a way to script it with parameters as input for the filenames.

Here another one btw:

Code:

find . -type f \( -name "file1" -o -name "file2" -o -name "file3" \) -print

For having trouble with the parameters maybe have a look here:
Internal Variables
Look for "Positional Parameters", as a start.