On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 07:49 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > Regex has always been a mystery to me, any help would be great! As someone else pointed out, you're doing 'globbing', or pathname expansion. If you do want to learn and debug POSIX style regular expressions, I highly recommend regex-coach. You can type in a regex, and some text, and see what it matches. Lots of features. See: http://weitz.de/regex-coach/ p.s. If I've understood what you want, my solution would be: #!/bin/bash shopt -s extglob for file in *[0-9].*[0-9].*[0-9] ; do # stuff done this will iterate over all files/directories of the form number.number.number and ignore everything else. Matt Matt Davey Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler. mcdavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Einstein.
