I don't know how I can describe the problem without talking all day, especially since this code is proprietary.
Basically the entire ! -regex "regex" as well as possible other ! -regex and ! -name are contained within a single variable, I'm running this on a dir to find non-compliant files for an audit.
For example:
Run as:
Within this variable all the -regex arguments are surrounded in double quotes to prevent them from blowing up, otherwise everything else is left unquoted.
Both the ! and the -regex arguments are getting surrounded in single quotes. I cannot get rid of these single quotes no matter what it seems, Linux puts them there.
I have some files in unix
ls -1
TMH.backend.tar.421E-03.Z
TMH.backend.tar.421E-04.Z
TMH.backend.tar.421E-05.Z
TMH.backend.tar.421E-06.Z
TMH.backend.tar.421E-07.Z
TMH.backend.tar.421E-08.Z
TMH.backend.tar.421E-08.Z.bak20081223164844
TMH.backend.tar.421E-09.Z... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I was reading the man pages of find and it says that the -exec option should not be used. I read the following about the recommended option, -execdir:
-execdir command {} +
Like -exec, but the specified command is run from the subdirec‐
tory containing... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to list files only from the current dir and its child dir (not from child's child dir).
i have the following files,
./ABC/1.log
./ABC/2.log
./ABC/ABC1/A.log
./ABC/ABC1/B.log
./ABC/ABC1/XYZ/A1.log
./ABC/ABC1/XYZ/A2.log
Here i want to list only the log file from current... (1 Reply)
Hi,
The proble is below:
Assume i have files starting from "process" then date/time then ".log".
ex .
process.20100504092942.log
process.20100503152213.log
process.20100430144217.log
process.20100429153644.log
process.20100428121200.log
process.20100427130746.log... (2 Replies)
To find all the files in your home directory that have been edited in some way since the last tar file, use this command:
find . -newer backup.tar.gz
Is anyone familiar with an older solution?
looking to identify files older then 15mins across several directories.
thanks,
manny (2 Replies)
Hi There,
Can anybody help me out for searching this regular expression?
xxxxx.yyy.zzzz.From-ABCD.To-XYZ.xxxxxx
I would like the ID1 and ID2 (knowing which one is Id1 and id2)
.From-<ID1>.
and
.To-<ID2>.
Thanks in advance!!
Regards,
Bhaskar (4 Replies)
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Hello, I am using ksh93 (/usr/dt/bin/dtksh) on Solaris and am stuck when trying to use find with the -prune option.
I need to search a directory (supplied in a variable) for files matching a certain pattern, but ignore any sub-directories.
I have tried:
find ${full_path_to_dir_to_search}... (9 Replies)
Hi,
Please give me more details on the following examples, about "mtime" option.
When I try this, I could not get the expected output, please help.
find . -mtime -1 -print
find . -mtime +1 -print
find . -mtime 1 -print
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
re_comp
REGEX(3) Library Functions Manual REGEX(3)NAME
re_comp, re_exec - regular expression handler
SYNOPSIS
char *re_comp(s)
char *s;
re_exec(s)
char *s;
DESCRIPTION
Re_comp compiles a string into an internal form suitable for pattern matching. Re_exec checks the argument string against the last string
passed to re_comp.
Re_comp returns 0 if the string s was compiled successfully; otherwise a string containing an error message is returned. If re_comp is
passed 0 or a null string, it returns without changing the currently compiled regular expression.
Re_exec returns 1 if the string s matches the last compiled regular expression, 0 if the string s failed to match the last compiled regular
expression, and -1 if the compiled regular expression was invalid (indicating an internal error).
The strings passed to both re_comp and re_exec may have trailing or embedded newline characters; they are terminated by nulls. The regular
expressions recognized are described in the manual entry for ed(1), given the above difference.
SEE ALSO ed(1), ex(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Re_exec returns -1 for an internal error.
Re_comp returns one of the following strings if an error occurs:
No previous regular expression,
Regular expression too long,
unmatched (,
missing ],
too many () pairs,
unmatched ).
3rd Berkeley Distribution May 15, 1985 REGEX(3)