find command
 

hi all

I want to find out all .sh files in a directory and store result in a file. I am doing it like this

"find "$dir" *.sh | grep "$dir" | grep .sh >> /root/shFiles"

but result includes those file which contains "sh" in their file name.
But i want only .sh files.

How can I solve this.

Thanks
MKSC

find "$dir" -name "*.sh" > /root/shFiles
should be what you are looking for

It should be added, if he has other data in the file and doesn't want to overwrite it use >> to apend to file.

find "$dir" -name '*.sh' > /root/shFiles

This one will work better.
Note the quotes around *.sh
If you put "*.sh", bash will replace with *.sh in current directory and find may try to find myscript.sh and only myscript.sh. With simple quotes, find correctly try to find anything that terminates whith sh.