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[krava]

hi

I am trying to manipulate files that contain some of these words

tau1, tau2, tau3, tau4, tau5 or tau6

I wrote this one

for fl in `find -type f -regex '.*tau\(1\|2\|3\|4\|5\|6\).*' -print`; do
echo $fl;
done

and tried this

for fl in `find -regextype posix-egrep -type f -regex '.*tau(1|2|3|4|5|6).*' -print`; do
echo $fl;
done




But both command manipulates files with tau10 as well. How to avoid this?


thanks
p.

 

[PHV]

With legacy shell pattern:
find -type f -name '*tau[1-6][!0-9]*'

Hope This Helps, PH.
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