Re: diff files matching a pattern

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:


> #call as script-name <pattern> dir1 dir2
> pattern="$1"
> dir1="$2"
> dir2="$3"
> for file in $dir1/$pattern; do
>      diff $file dir2${file##${dir1}}
> done
> 

I must be doing something wrong here. Consider this reduced problem. I tried
to write a script to list all the files matching a specific pattern.
Consider

$cat ~/bin/patlist
#! /bin/sh
# to list all the files matching a given pattern
# call as patlist <pattern>
pattern="$1"
for file in $pattern; do
  echo $file
done


$ls file*
file1.txt  file2.txt  file3.txt

$patlist file*
file1.txt

That is for some reason patlist script lists only the first file the matches
the pattern and not all the files.

I am using Debian Etch
$/bin/bash --version
/bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


raju
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