Re: A little regex help please ...

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Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> 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.

Try

    for f in [1-9]*; do ...; done

or

    for f in [:digit:]*; do ...; done

It's not a regex, but a shell pattern match.  See the section
"Pathname Expansion" in the bash manpage for some details.

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