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Date: Sat,  6 Apr 2002 09:15:38 +0100
Message-ID: <7169-Sat06Apr2002091539+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
From: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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To: "Gupta, Sanjay" <SGupta AT Epylon DOT com>
Cc: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re:bash script Q
In-Reply-To: <657B20E93E93D4118F9700D0B73CE3EA0D397238@goofy.epylon.lan>
References: <657B20E93E93D4118F9700D0B73CE3EA0D397238 AT goofy DOT epylon DOT lan>

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 ?
> 
> 
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