Unless there is something Cygwin-specific to your question here, I would point out that this is off-topic for this list, and ask you to take your shell programming questions elsewhere.
Thanks, David On Friday 5 Apr 02, Gupta, Sanjay writes: > I assuming that I am reading all files from /tmp/ directory > > for File in /tmp/* > do > ## Check, if it is a File > if [ -f $File ] ; then > ## Yes, it is a file > ## Get the basename and cut two characters > TWOBYTES=`basename $File | cut -b1,2` > if [ "$TWOBYTES" = "%!" ] ; then > echo "File Name Valid" > else > echo "File Name Not Valid" > fi > else > ## This is a directory > ## I do not know what you want to do here , put your code here. > fi > done > > > > > Hi, > anyone point me to the best bash script option for checking the > first 2 > characters of all the files in a directory? > > logic of the script is > > for each file in directory > test if the first 2 chars are "%!" > print Filename valid > if not > print Filename not valid > > > Does magic do something like this ? > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
