bash script Q

Sat Apr 6 00:15:00 GMT 2002

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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