BASH and wildcard expansion

[Steve Searle]

Around 07:56pm on Monday, August 19, 2013 (UK time), Mark Haney scrawled:

> I've hit a problem I can't quite figure out which a bash script I'm
> writing.  I'm trying to copy backup files in the format
> 2013-August-18--1123.zip to an NFS share.  I want to have the script copy
> the file with just the date.  In bash I've setup vars that get the current
> date:
> 
> # Date variables
> log_year=`date "+%Y"`
> log_month=`date "+%B"`
> log_day=`date "+%d"`
> 
> # Filename format YYYY_MM_DD--HHMM.zip
> filename=$log_year"-"$log_month"-"$log_day"--"/*".zip"
> 
> The problem is I don't really care about the stuff after the '--'. I.e.
> from the CLI I'd just 'ls 2013-August-18--*.zip' to get all the files with
> that date in the file name.  How can I do that in a bash script?

Not sure I totally understand what the problem is, but I think if I were
doing what I think you may be trying to do, I'd consider using the find
command.

Steve

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