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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Globbing slash Wildcarding Question Post 302105406 by scotbuff on Thursday 1st of February 2007 01:29:47 PM
Old 02-01-2007
Globbing slash Wildcarding Question

I am on HP-UX and I am trying to come up with a method to call in a list of files named like so.

filename020107.dat filename020207.dat filename020307.dat

Obviously I can list them ls them like so, ls filename*.dat. In case you did not notice the number is a date and I was hoping to match the filenames like so, ls filename[01-12][01-31][00-99].dat thus guaranteeing my date format. There could possibly be files named filenameabc123.dat or anything for that matter and I wanted to fine tune my listing a little more. I really though this form of globbing worked, but I have been unsuccessful.

filename[01-12][01-31][00-99].dat not found

Am I missing something or am I just wrong in thinking you can glob in this manner? Thanks in adavance.
 

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load_datafile(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual					    load_datafile(3alleg4)

NAME
load_datafile - Loads a datafile into memory. Allegro game programming library. SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h> DATAFILE *load_datafile(const char *filename); DESCRIPTION
Loads a datafile into memory in one go. If the datafile has been encrypted, you must first call packfile_password() to set the appropriate key. If the datafile contains truecolor graphics, you must set the video mode or call set_color_conversion() before loading it. Example: /* Load the resources for our game. */ DATAFILE *dat = load_datafile("game.dat"); if (!dat) abort_on_error("Couldn't load sound resources!"); /* Use resources. */ ... /* Destroy them when we don't need them any more. */ unload_datafile(dat); RETURN VALUE
Returns a pointer to the DATAFILE, or NULL on error. Remember to free this DATAFILE later to avoid memory leaks. SEE ALSO
load_datafile_callback(3alleg4), unload_datafile(3alleg4), load_datafile_object(3alleg4), set_color_conversion(3alleg4), fixup_datafile(3alleg4), packfile_password(3alleg4), find_datafile_object(3alleg4), register_datafile_object(3alleg4), excustom(3alleg4), exdata(3alleg4), exexedat(3alleg4), exgui(3alleg4), exsprite(3alleg4), exunicod(3alleg4) Allegro version 4.4.2 load_datafile(3alleg4)
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