unable to get the complete list of file matching the regular expression in shell script -

i have directory list of files abc_1.txt abc_2.txt. have parse file name , processing on file

  #shellscript /tmp/log*   file_list=`ls $1`   file_name in $file_list        # need processing on file name      echo $file_name   done 

the script not giving proper output i.e script not giving matching wildcard file name ls cmd. usage of above script shellscript /tmp/log*

bash expands shellscript /tmp/log/abc* list of files names input script. ls not needed. iterate on input. try this

for f in $*  echo "processing $f"  # on $f done 

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-loop-over-file/ gives more examples.