On 28.07.2010 14:42, Jochen Schulz wrote:
J> I think you meant to write
J> for MAGFILE in `ls $MAGDIR/*.[Zz][Ii][Pp]`
J> Another hint: you don't need 'ls' for your case at all.
I'd recommend keeping the "ls". Try your script when MAGDIR doesn't
have any zipfiles, and MAGFILE will hold the expanded value of $MAGDIR
with the string "*.[Zz][Ii][Pp]" appended. Bash, sh, and ksh all do
that for some dopey reason, which is why I would do
for file in $(ls $MAGDIR/*.[Zz][Ii][Pp] 2> /dev/null); do ...
if there's any chance that you won't find any files.