06-04-2010
finding all files that do not match a certain pattern
I hope I'm asking this the right way --
I've been sending out a lot of resumes and some of them I saw on Craigslist -- so I named the file as 'Craigslist -- (filename)'. Well I noticed that at least one of the files was misspelled as 'Craigslit.'
I want to eventually try to write a shell script that will find all the Craigslist files that do NOT match the standard pattern and change it to the standard one. But I'm having trouble figuring out how to simply find any files that don't match the standard naming convention.
So, for example, how would I find all files that have 'Craigs' in it but not the 'list' part, such as Craigslit, Craigslt, Craigsliist, Craigslitt, etc -- all the possible combinations of letters that are NOT the desired 'list?'
I've tried to use the 'find' command with brackets and braces, but I think I'm not getting something. Or is there a better way/command to use?
Am I making sense?
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SHAR(1) BSD General Commands Manual SHAR(1)
NAME
shar -- create a shell archive of files
SYNOPSIS
shar file ...
DESCRIPTION
shar writes an sh(1) shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file hierarchy specified by the command line operands.
Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the files they contain (the find(1) utility does this correctly).
shar is normally used for distributing files by ftp(1) or mail(1).
EXAMPLES
To create a shell archive of the program ls(1) and mail it to Rick:
cd ls
shar `find . -print` | mail -s "ls source" rick
To recreate the program directory:
mkdir ls
cd ls
...
<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
...
sh archive
SEE ALSO
compress(1), mail(1), tar(1), uuencode(1)
HISTORY
The shar command appeared in 4.4BSD.
BUGS
shar makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing magic characters.
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
It is easy to insert trojan horses into shar files. It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined before running them
through sh(1). Archives produced using this implementation of shar may be easily examined with the command:
egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file
BSD
June 6, 1993 BSD