SHELL SCRIPT TO FETCH FILES WHICH STARTS WITH ‘A’ IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY

FILES WHICH STARTS WITH ‘A’ IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY:

for i in *

do

  x=$(echo $i|cut -b 1)

  if [ $x = "a" ]

  then

    echo $i

  else

    continue

  fi

  done

OUTPUT:

[@localhost ~]$ sh firstlet.sh a

acceptlogin.sh

add.sh

a.out