Suppose in unix directory,there are some files placed with same filename but with different extension like
abc.001
abc.002
abc.003
There can be n number of files.
I need to first get the files from the directory and then iterate on each files. With the below command I am getting the files but can anyone please help how to iterate on each file and read each file and do processing.?
find "/tmp/files/" -name "abc.*" -type f -exec echo {} \;
Why iterate? grep takes several file arguments at once, so
grep PATTERN abc.*
should work.
In case the files are not all in the same directory, using find is an option:
find /tmp/files -name 'abc.*' -type f -exec grep PATTERN /dev/null {} +
The + at the end tells find to pass as many files as possible to grep in one go. The /dev/null is to make sure at least 2 files are passed to grep so grep always outputs the file name for every match. With GNU grep, you can use the -H (aka --with-filename) option instead.
for f in abc.*; do [[ "$f" =~ "abc."[0-9]{3} ]] && echo "Processed: $f"; done