How to find files starting by a string?

Question

Hello.
I need a way to read all files in a directory whose names start with a string in order to update a field in a table. I wonder if there is a way of doing that in pl/sql.
As this procedure will be called in a shell script I guess I could do that in shell script but I don't know how to do that.
Can someone help me?
Thanks anyone.

Answer 1

Yes Kamal, as an old Unix user, I don't like spaces within names, and normally I don't use them :-)
but the problem can be solved :
$ ls -l va*
-rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall 240813 27 ago 10:39 valind.sql
-rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall    283 18 feb  2005 val.sql
-rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall     62  5 dic 18:52 var 123.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall    154  5 set 17:16 var1.sql
$ cat disp.sh
ls va* | while read FILE
do
        sqlplus -s scott/tiger << EOF
set serveroutput on
exec disp_file('$FILE');
exit
EOF
done
$ ./disp.sh
valind.sql
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
val.sql
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
var 123.txt
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
var1.sql
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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