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Hi, I had to pull a handful of account numbers from a file into a table. Now I want to do a basic list from a directory in my program showing me if any files for these customers exist. There are files associated with each client and need to be processed individually.
$Paytos = 00153301 00153302 00153303 00153304 (=client numbers)

ls -tr ${Paytos}

This would list anything equal to 00153301 00153302 00153303 but I need it to list the following files:
00153301.100109
00153302.100109
00153303.100109

I tried ls -tr ${Paytos}.* but no go?

Thanks.

pls post more details!

exp: file currently
cat file
result ....


should be
cat file | ... commands ....
result......

Client database
CUSTNUMBER="${USERID} 00153301 00153302 00153303 00153304

Program pulls this information for each client.
CustNumber="('"
for number in ${CUSTNUMBER}
do
[ `echo "${number}" | grep -c -e[a-z]` -gt 0 ] && continue
PayToS="${PayToS}${number} "
CustNumber="${CustNumber}${number}', '"
done

Files go on hold daily:
00153301.052090
00153302.052104

Program needs to find all available files and process. I was trying to accomplish this by capturing the paytos and listing all them, reading the file and processing them but my payto's do not have the end of the file after the period.
Hope this makes sense.

You just got a UUOC Award. Remember, whenever you're doing cat foo | something, you should do something <foo instead to save your computer the trouble of launching an extra process and doing umpteen pointless extra reads and writes.

I'm still not sure I understood you correctly, but given that E contains the extension

Code:

for F in $Paytos; do
  ls ${F}.$E
done

Regards,

pen

Dear Corona688, that was just an example of me!
note: time --> command ---> result ---> resource