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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Check file name against convention Post 302614813 by Yeaboem on Wednesday 28th of March 2012 11:22:43 PM
Old 03-29-2012
You didn't provide enough details for the first responder to answer completely. Also, your first attempt is using find - are you walking down a directory tree? or only checking in the current directory? Are you only looking for exceptions to the pattern? or searching for the filenames that correctly match?

I would start by reading the manpage for your shell - look for a section on File Name expansion or Pathname expansion. This will give you the primitive tools you can use to create a command-line that will meet your requirement... e.g.

Code:
ls -l [A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]_[0-9][0-9][0-9]_[0-9][0-9][0-9]_...etc...[0-9].dpx

if you shell's primitives are not sufficient, you can pipe the output of 'ls' through 'grep' to use more comprehensive regular expressions... e.g.

Code:
ls *.dpx | grep -v [A-Z]{3}_[0-9]{3}_[0-9]{3}_...etc...[0-9]{6}.dpx | xargs ls -l > Bad_Filenames.txt

 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

zgrep

ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other 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 the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

																	  ZGREP(1)
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