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# 1  
Old 08-13-2008
grep the particular file
I have couple of file like below

file_one
file_two
file_three
file_four
file five

if you see the above list, only the last file 'file five' is having spaces between the file name.I want to grep the file name which are having spaces between the file names.
Please assit me how to grep or find these files from the unix directory.
# 2  
Old 08-13-2008
The command for listing file names is ls, not grep.

Code:
ls *\ *

# 3  
Old 08-13-2008
that I know...i want to extract the file whic are having spaces between the file names
# 4  
Old 08-13-2008
can you brief little more. wat u want to extract? whether u want those filenames into a newfile orelse do you want to perform anything on those files with spaces?
# 5  
Old 08-13-2008
I have the list of files
file_one
file_two
file_three
file_four
file five
As per our anomalies, file name should not have the spaces between them.If we find the spaces we have to grep the files which are having spaces from the list of files.
From the above list I want to extract only the last file.That is the one is having spaces between the file name. Thanks
# 6  
Old 08-13-2008
Did you try typing in ls asterisk, backslash, space, asterisk? That's a file mask specifying file names containing anything (the first asterisk) followed by space (that needs to be backslashed -- or quoted -- to make it part of the same expression), followed by anything (the second asterisk).
# 7  
Old 08-13-2008
i think if you want to find file names with spaces in the name , you use some thing like this
nbsch013Smiliemsdist:/tstusr1/tsa/oms/tst/omsdist/old/TEMP> ls
a a b ab b
nbsch013Smiliemsdist:/tstusr1/tsa/oms/tst/omsdist/old/TEMP> ls | grep "a b"
a b
nbsch013Smiliemsdist:/tstusr1/tsa/oms/tst/omsdist/old/TEMP> ls | grep "[a-z]\ [a-z]"
a b
nbsch013Smiliemsdist:/tstusr1/tsa/oms/tst/omsdist/old/TEMP> ls | grep "\ "
a b
offcourse you have to change your pattern of what will be there in the file names
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