Re: Shell Expansion in Bourne Shell Script Question

[Jordon Bedwell <jordon@envygeeks.com>]

On 7/28/10 6:33 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	I could have sworn I have done this before but obviously
> not because I can't get it to work no matter what I try.
>
> 	I am running a shell script that is supposed to find
> every .zip or .ZIP file in a directory and do an extraction of
> the contents. I don't want any other files to be included in the
> script as they are not zip files. What works exactly from the
> command line is:
>
> ls *.[Zz][Ii][Pp]
>
> I get any .zip or .ZIP file that is in the directory. In the
> script, there is some code as follows:
>
>       for MAGFILE in `ls *.[Zz][Ii][Pp] $MAGDIR/`; do
> #lots of other stuff
> done
>
> 	I think I have tried about every form of escaping there
> is and the error is that *.[Zz][Ii][Pp] is no such file or
> directory.
>
> 	If I leave out the attempted regular expression of
> *.[Zz][Ii][Pp], the loop works but then any other non-zip or
> non-ZIP files get processed.
>
> 	Many thanks for any suggestions or explanations as to
> why this does not seem to work.
>
> Martin McCormick

#!/bin/sh
for MAGFILE in $(ls *\.[zZ][iI][pP])
do
   echo "File: $MAGFILE";
done

I would prefer to rely on $() before `` in a bash script.