On Monday 10 July 2006 11:18, Mauricio Vergara Ereche wrote: > El Lunes, 10 de Julio de 2006 11:07, T. Horsnell escribió: > > This is not very elegant, but: > > > > alf1_tsh> echo "5.1.2" | cut -d "-" -f 1 | cut -d "_" -f 1 5.1.2 [snip] > Oh! > I see. > > In that case, I suggest: > for i in ?.?.? > > I tried to do the "logical-to-me" expansion: > > for i in *.[:digit:] Your problem is that you think the shell uses regular expressions. It doesn't. It uses "globs". See glob(7). -- Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579
