Question

I need to list out the names of the files based on given type. Is there any tool to do that or is there any source code so that i can get the list of the files with given extension.

Example: If “.txt” is given then the output must contain list of all the text files in a specific directory.

Answer 1

You can use find, e.g.

% DIR=/foo/bar/blech
% SUFFIX=txt
% find "${DIR}" -name \*.${SUFFIX}

If you don’t want to find matching files in subdirectories then change this last line to:

% find "${DIR}" -depth 1 -name \*.${SUFFIX}

If you are using Windows then you will need to install cygwin or similar before you can use find.