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How to loop .sh script file names to .txt?

Apologies, I am new to the linux environment. I am attempting to create a .sh file that puts files depending on their file name into a .txt with the file names corressponding to the day of the year. Rather than having the .sh file have 365 lines for each day of the year is there a way to loop through in daily increments?

currently I am using 

ls A2018001* > A2018001.txt
ls A2018002* > A2018002.txt
ls A2018003* > A2018003.txt
ls A2018004* > A2018004.txt

etc..

Which is okay but is there a way to avoid having 365 lines of code in the .sh with a loop?

Solution

  • One way:

    for i in {2018001..2018365}
do
  ls A${i}* > A${i}.txt 
done

    Generate the loop for 1 to 365 and then list the files and redirect.