Regular Expression and "ls"

[job357]

Hi,

I have a directory that has file names, "63.html?1024007406" that i would like to remove. I used ls -l '1[0-9].*' to list these file but was unsuccessful. Can someone lead me in the right direction here?

Travis

 

[newmangj]

what about piping the output of ls through grep?

ls -l | grep '[0-9].*'

 

[jad]

umm ... howabout:

ls | grep '?1[0-9]'

if you were planning on moving these files to names without ?'s you could use foreach and nawk/gawk:

foreach file (*?1[0-9]*)
echo $file | nawk 'sys=sprintf("mv \"%s\" \"%s\"\n",$0,substr($0,0,index($0,"?")-1)); system(sys);}'
end

if you have 'awk' but not gawk or nawk, use 'print' instead of system, cat it to a file, and run the file (or back tick the command)

 

[job357]

Jad,

This is definitely a good one to know, thanks, as I often have needs of moving files; after identifiying them.

Travis