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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers finding all files that do not match a certain pattern Post 302427388 by vin8465 on Saturday 5th of June 2010 02:21:53 AM
Old 06-05-2010
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Originally Posted by Straitsfan
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?

From what you have asked, I guess, the following command would do the trick

Code:
find . -print | grep -i "craigs*"

 

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bzgrep

BZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							 BZGREP(1)

NAME

       bzgrep, bzfgrep, bzegrep - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       bzgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
       bzegrep [ egrep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
       bzfgrep [ fgrep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Bzgrep  is  used to invoke the grep on bzip2-compressed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,
       then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and  fed	to
       grep.

       If  bzgrep  is  invoked as bzegrep or bzfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep.  If the GREP environment variable is set, bzgrep
       uses it as the grep program to be invoked. For example:

	   for sh:  GREP=fgrep	bzgrep string files
	   for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; bzgrep string files)

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca). Adapted to bzip2 by Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for Debian GNU/Linux.

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), bzdiff(1), bzmore(1), bzless(1), bzip2(1)

																	 BZGREP(1)
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