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file name pattern matching in a script

Dermot Beirne — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:55:39 GMT

Hi,
I have a lot of file names with ascending numeric patterns in their names. e.g. file1234, file1235, file1236, etc.
I am trying to list the files whose names fall within a certain numeric range, e.g. file1234-file1239.
I've tried everything and am sure i am making a stupid omission somewhere, but can't waste any more time searching the web and reading for an answer. Can someone please take me out of my misery!
Thanks.
Dermot.

Re: file name pattern matching in a script

harry d brown jr — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:01:26 GMT

ls file123[4-9]

# cd /tmp
# touch file1230
# touch file1233
# touch file1234
# touch file1235
# touch file1236
# touch file1238
# touch file1237
# touch file1239
# ls file123[4-9]
file1234 file1235 file1236 file1237 file1238 file1239
# ls file123[5-8]
file1235 file1236 file1237 file1238
#

live free or die
harry

Re: file name pattern matching in a script

Yogeeraj_1 — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:10:57 GMT

hi,

this do it:
ls -alR file12[34-39]

or if there are more files, you can also do a:
ls -alR file12[34-39]*

using wild cards * or ?, it becomes easy.

Cheers
Yogeeraj

Re: file name pattern matching in a script

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:11:59 GMT

check this:

ll file12* | awk '/file1234/,/file1243/ { print}'

Re: file name pattern matching in a script

harry d brown jr — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:34:53 GMT

Yogeeraj,

# ls file12[34-39]*
file12[34-39]* not found
#

the [34-39] doesn't work because the "range" doesn't work that way. The "range" is a single range. IE a-z works, but not aa-ku.

live free or die
harry

Re: file name pattern matching in a script

Ceesjan van Hattum — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:43:27 GMT

The method of Carlos works perfect. First posting of Harry D. Brown looks good, but as Harry indeed telles us, the [xx-yy] does not work. Only one charachter-range is available.

Don't you just love awk.. :)
Ceesjan

Re: file name pattern matching in a script

harry d brown jr — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:09:21 GMT

With these files

# ls file1*
file1 file1220 file1230 file1234 file1236 file1238 file1244 file1255
file1211 file1225 file1233 file1235 file1237 file1239 file1245

you can display ranges using this syntax, as in listing files that are

file1224-file1227 & file1234-file1237

# ls file12[2-3][4-7]
file1225 file1234 file1235 file1236 file1237
#

if you want all files starting at file1224 through file1237, then this syntax works:

# ls file122[4-9] file123[0-7]
file1225 file1230 file1233 file1234 file1235 file1236 file1237
#

live free or die
harry

Re: file name pattern matching in a script

Dermot Beirne — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:38:30 GMT

Thanks to all, but especially Carlos. Your awk statement was spot on. The problem with the others was that it did not allow for going from file12301 to file12311 easily.

Many thanks.
Dermot