grep for a particular entry in the file name
 

Dear all,


I have a folder with following list of files with names like

amg-9876544-M37421-3000282.PDF
amg-9876544-M37408-3000457.PDF
amg-9876544-M37488-3000260.PDF
amg-9876544-M37481-3300063.PDF
amg-9876544-M37454-3000675.PDF
amg-9876544-M37543-3000672.PDF
amg-9876544-M37541-3363000.PDF
amg-9876544-M37528-3000381.PDF
amg-9876544-M37524-3000432.PDF
amg-9876544-M37506-3000352.PDF
amg-9876544-M37500-3021100.PDF
amg-9876544-M37585-3850050.PDF
amg-9876544-M37577-3005105.PDF
amg-9876544-M37565-3000502.PDF
amg-9876544-M37611-3300527.PDF
amg-9876544-M37610-3300150.PDF
amg-9876544-M37607-3300259.PDF

I want to list all the files that has the entry with 33..for ex..file with name amg-9876544-M37607-3300259.PDF after the -.

If I give ls -rlt | grep *33* it lists all the file with entry 33 anywhere in it.I want to grep for files with 33 after that "-" in the file name..

Please suggest

Kai

If the file names have the same number of characters and digits, as in your example, you can simply use the ? wildcard to match any single character:

Put a period in front of the '-'. So it looks like:

Put a . in front of the dash.

ls -rlt | grep .-33

Thanks Colucix,but it doesn't work

ls -lrt | grep amg-????????-????????-33??????.PDF

doesn't display anything..


am sure that I replaced all the places with q marks


Please advise


Kai

You don't have to use grep for this

Thanks Rabbit2345,


but it doesn't help

ls -lr | grep *.-33* (or) ls -lr | grep .-33

doesn't display anything.


Please advise

Kai

This is really strange. Are you sure you are in the right directory? It must list the files you've shown in the post above.

Thanks a lot Colucix, it works fine..

Can you also tell me how can I move this conditioned files to another folder in the same file system


Thanks
Kai

Just use the mv command:
the shell will expand the wildcards with the matching file names and move all of them to the destination folder. The command actually executed will be: