ls - arg list too long

[varajan]

There is a line in one of our unix scripts:
filelist='ls mlp?????.dat'

This line is giving an error message:
/usr/bin/ls: arg list too long

How can I avoid this from happening ? I definitely don't want to look at any files besides mlp?????.dat.

Can somebody assist ?

 

[PHV]

You may try this:
filelist=""
for f in `ls`
do case $f in mlp?????.dat) filelist="${filelist}$f ";; esac
done

Hope This Helps, PH.
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