BASH and wildcard expansion

[Mark Haney]

That's what I missed. I used the wrong single quotes ' instead of `. Git.
Should've caught that right off. It's been a while since I had a chance to
script anything in bash, since I've worked mostly in Windows the last year
or so and I'm rusty. Thanks.
On Aug 19, 2013 6:18 PM, "Bill Oliver" <vendor at billoblog.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Mark Haney wrote:
>
>  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"-"$log_day"--"/*".zip"
>>
>> The problem is I don't really care about the stuff after the '--'. I.e.
>> from the CLI I'd just 'ls 2013-August-18--*.zip' to get all the files with
>> that date in the
>> file name.  How can I do that in a bash script?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
>>
>> Mark Haney
>> Software Developer/Consultant
>> mark.haney at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>
> You mean something like this?
>
> ************************
> #!/bin/sh
> # Date variables
> log_year=`date "+%Y"`
> log_month=`date "+%B"`
> log_day=`date "+%d"`
>
> # Filename format YYYY_MM_DD--HHMM.zip
> filename="$log_year-$log_**month-$log_day--*.zip"
>
> filelist=`ls $filename`
>
> echo $filelist
> ***************************
>
> billo
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