Yeah, you did understand but I should have been more clear because my release tress go way back and don't all begin with 5. We go clear back to 3; so it could be 3.0 3.1 3.1-* 3.1_* 3.2 3.2-* .... 4.5 4.5-* 4.5_* ... 5.0 5.0-* 5.0_* There is about 300 directories I'm walking through here. :b! Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx } -- > This is a test. This is only a test! Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been told to cancel this test and seek professional assistance! -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mauricio Vergara Ereche Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:57 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: A little regex help please ... El Lunes, 10 de Julio de 2006 10:49, Brian D. McGrew escribió: > Morning all, hi! > I'm in a shell script (hey, it's dark in here) in the middle of a 'for f > in *' loop and I walking through a list of directories that looks like: > > 5.1 > 5.1.1 > 5.1.1-LINUX > 5.1.1-FC3 > 5.1.1-RH73 > 5.1.1_debug > 5.1.1_debug_O1G > 5.1.2 > 5.1.2-LINUX > 5.1.2-FC3 > 5.1.2-RH73 > 5.1.2_debug > 5.1.2_debug_O1G > > All of these start with a number. I'm looking for a simple regex to > pick off everything up to and including the last numerical value and > throw away everything after the last numerical value. you could try for f in 5.1{,.1,.2}; do (That will expand to 5.1, 5.1.1 and 5.1.2) Did I understood well what you want? -- Mauricio Vergara Ereche User #188365 counter.li.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list