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# 8  
Old 09-28-2011
The command you were given is correct.

When you stripped out all the spaces and squashed it into one pattern, you made it wrong.
# 9  
Old 09-28-2011
Watch out for the spaces
Code:
ls any_name*.txt /anydir/* >All_File_Names.txt

# 10  
Old 09-28-2011
can u pls give me the exact command?
the filepattern is filetest_*
the directory is incoming
The file which has to be created is All_File_Names.txt

what exactly is the command?
# 11  
Old 09-28-2011
I don't understand your confusion. These are almost exactly like the patterns you've been using already, except UNIX uses / for directories instead of \.

Code:
ls incoming/filetest_* > All_File_Names.txt

# 12  
Old 09-28-2011
Code:
# ls -ld *
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-28 20:56 d1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-28 20:57 d2
# ls -ld d*/f*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d1/f11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d1/f12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:56 d1/f32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d2/f21
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d2/f22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:57 d2/f31
# ls -ld d1/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d1/f11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d1/f12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:56 d1/f32
# ls -ld d1/f*2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d1/f12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:56 d1/f32
# ls -ld */*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d1/f11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d1/f12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:56 d1/f32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d2/f21
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:52 d2/f22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-28 20:57 d2/f31
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# 13  
Old 09-28-2011
Thank you all for your prompt responses. Have a good time!!
 
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