Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
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.
The pattern should be in quotes, so that the shell does not expand it and it gets passed to your script.
So it should be $patlist "file*" -- Raj Kiran Grandhi --At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.