ksh: for loop to loop through files in a particular directory

Question

schema_dir=schema_app
for SCHEMA_CHANGE in $schema_dir/*
do

so my pwd is /A/B/C/scripts within which I have subdirectories (schema_app, schema_data, etc). I want a for loop to run through the files in each directory, depending upon the parameter I pass to the script initially.

What mistake am I doing here ? Because, when I echo SCHEMA_CHANGE (the file name), it is showing like this schema_app/filename. how can I get only the filename here ?

Answer 1

You aren't doing anything wrong. schema_app/filename is the correct path to the file. It's what you need to pass to a command (or a redirection) to work on the file. Using filename alone wouldn't work: how would the command know in what directory the file is?

If for some reason you need the filename without its directory part, you can use

"${SCHEMA_CHANGE##*/}"

This takes the value of the variable SCHEMA_CHANGE and removes the part up to and including the last / (or leaves the value unchanged if there's no /), so you get the filename without its directory part.