Answer:

You actually need to tell sh that you want to iterate through the list of files in that directory, so you call the ls command

for filename in $(ls /data/logs/2017/jan/201701*);
do
file=$(basename $filename)
echo $file > /home/bishopm/${file%.gz}
done

Edit: now it should work, provided that the bishopm directory exists Edit2…

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