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loukas texasll 11-27-2011 11:25 AM
fedora linux-wildcard commands
 
hello my name is loukas!
and i would like to ask if anybody know how can i use ls with wildcards to list all files that end in a between numbers?

frankbell 11-27-2011 07:15 PM
Assuming that you are talking about a file name such as 1somethingorother2.something, normal wildcards such as * and ? should work.

Code:
$ ls 1*2.txt
1and2.txt  1somethingorother2.txt
$ ls 1???2.txt
1and2.txt
$ ls *1*2*.*
1and2.txt
1somethingorother2.txt
joe1somethingorother2more.txt
joe1somethingorother2.txt
For something more complicated, you may need to use regular expressions. See man regex for more, then Google for links to make the man page understandable.


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