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To list all of the members in a PDS on a z/OS system, you can issue the following commands:

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Html bobswift <pre> forfiles zos=MYHLQ.MYPDS(*) print msg=$(_file) end </pre>

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This would print the name of each member in a PDS called MYHLQ.MYPDS.

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For Windows, UNIX, and IBM i systems (as well as the HFS file system under z/OS), you can list all of the files in the current directory with the following UDM commands:

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Html bobswift <pre> forfiles local=* print msg=$(_file) end </pre>

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To find all of the files ending in .txt in a particular directory, mydir in this example, issue the following forfiles statement:

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Html bobswift <pre> forfiles local=mydir/*.txt print msg=$(_file) end </pre>

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A question mark ( ? ) can be used as a wildcard for a single character. In the previous example, lets assume mydir contains the files: file, file1, file2, and file3.txt.

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Executing the following:

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Html bobswift <pre> forfiles local=mydir/file? print msg=$(_file) end </pre>

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Will result in the following output:

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Html bobswift <pre> file1 file2 </pre>

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