Need help splitting a string

hey folks, i started learning perl a couple of weeks ago and assumed shell scripting would be similar, i was wrong. nothing seems to work as it would in perl.. ok

ok i need to read from a directory say called numbers and in numbers is say one.txt, two.txt, three.txt etc...

i need to read the entire directory into say a normal string, then seperate this string into individual elements in an array which will be something like one.txt, two.txt etc...

i'v tried a few things to date, even having problems with the split function. i know this is probably simple but bare with me folks, new to this..

thanks in advance guys
ciaran

What OS and shell are you using?

hey man, in work im using just a basic Unix OP system, at home im using that cygwin shell over windows. most commands work tho. not sure what shell it is. sh or bash but thats a guess. i have it all done fine in perl but perl is kinda like java ,well to me anyway, and therefore easy enough. i'v a good bit of java experience from previous years

ciaran

This will work for bash:


Then you can iterate through the array like so:

cheers for that dude, but that just prints /path/to/numbers/*

hey ignore that last post, my directory was wrong. that worked perfect. thanks again. i may be back tho