bruce wrote:
hey...
here's one i can't see..
goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces
1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog
2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog
3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog
4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
i'm trying to figure out how i can do a complete list of all files with
*foo*dog
so i get the files with spaces and underlines...
i thought simply doing somehting like
ls '*foo_*.dog' and surrounding the filename with single quotes would
work.. but it doesn't.
Surrounding the expression with single quotes won't work, because the shell
meta-character expansion is ignored. However, what is it that you are trying to
achieve ?
listing works just fine without the quotes:
[steve@laptop foo]$ ls *foo*dog
1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog 2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
[steve@laptop foo]$ ls -1 *foo*dog
1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog
2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog
3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog
4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
[steve@laptop foo]$
...if the files are in different directories, use find:
[steve@laptop foo]$ find -type f -name "*foo*dog"
./a/1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog
./a/4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
./a/6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
./a/5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
./b/3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog
./b/2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog
[steve@laptop foo]$
However, I have a feeling, you need to do something more than just listing. What
do you need ?
cheers,
- steve
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