Hi Eric, the ls is superfluos, because a unix shell already expands wildcards (globbing): for IMG_FILE in image*.tif; do Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric M. Monsler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 02:57 > To: James Bergstrom > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CYGWIN file structure > > Your request is so broad as to be hardly answerable. > > For example, 'ls' is a utility distributed with cygwin that is often > used for examining filenames in a directory. > > How about something like: > > for IMG_FILE in $(ls image*.tif); do > NEWFILE=$(echo $IMG_FILE | sed s/image/proc_image/ ) > process_image_binary -i $IMG_FILE -o $NEW_FILE > rm $IMG_FILE > done > > as a solution? > (Note that the above has typos or other bugs with probability > approaching 1. These have been left in as an exercise for the student.) > > I do recall some messages about accessing directory contents from C > code. IIRC, the list of POSIX calls available under cygwin, available > from the cygwin website, included the apropriate item. I'm a little > busy, myself, to search the archives right now... > > > Eric Monsler > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
