Perhaps, try with this: for MAGFILE in `ls $MAGDIR/*.[Zz][Ii][Pp]`; do
El 28/07/10 13:33, Martin McCormick escribió: > 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 > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c5019db.6040...@gmail.com