Andy Spiegl wrote [2003/08/04]:
> I want to put all files that match the regex pattern
>  "^/var/tmp/exec\.[0-9]+$"
> into a list that I can then use in a foreach loop.
> 
> How can I do that most easily?

Not a "foreach" loop, but "for" should work, too:

for i in /var/tmp/exec.[0-9][0-9]* ; do echo $i ; done

> Thanks a lot,
>  Andy.

Ciao,
Thomas

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