about grep

ringerxyz · 03-03-2005, 01:15 AM

Hi everyone
i want to get some file name which is
1.begin with 'aaa'
2.followed by 4 numbers
3.then followed by 3 characters

and i use the following command:
ls |grep ^aaa[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][A-z][A-z][A-z]

does there exist a simple way to achieve this?

Artanicus · 03-03-2005, 01:52 AM

Well, i dont know how picky you are on the match, but ofcourse something like ls | grep aaa??????? would get you there.. But hey, if you have a regexp that does the job, why look for a simpler way? That atleast gets you exactly what you want..