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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help with selective ls Post 302616981 by newbie_01 on Monday 2nd of April 2012 02:23:13 AM
Old 04-02-2012
Help with selective ls

Hi all

Smilie

Can anyone advise how do I use ls to do a selective amd sorted listing of file that I want to have as below?

Am looking for files that are named as log_<nnnn>.txt, where <nnnn> are numeric, i.e. I want to have a listing sorted from the newest to the oldest of files that starts with log_ and with a .txt extension and the characters in between these two can only be numeric, example log_1.txt, log_234.txt, log_222.txt etc.

I want to exclude files like log_9ab.txt, log_a9b.txt., log_99a.txt

I thought I can get away with doing
Code:
ls -1tr log_[0-9][0-9]*.xml

but unfortunately the * list also files like log_99a.txt.

I want to be able to only list files where the characters in between log_ and .txt are numeric, unfortunately, sometimes, there can be 2, 3 or 5 numeric characters.

Any advise will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-02-2012 at 03:28 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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gtkdoc-mktmpl(1)					      General Commands Manual						  gtkdoc-mktmpl(1)

NAME
gtkdoc-mktmpl -- GTK DocBook documentation generator. SYNOPSIS
gtkdoc-mktmpl [ See below ] DESCRIPTION
gtkdoc-mktmpl This creates or updates the template files which contain the manually-edited documentation. (A template is a simple text form which is filled in with the description of a function, macro, enum, or struct. For functions and macros it also contains fields for describing the parameters.) This script reads in the existing templates, found in tmpl/*.sgml, moves these files to tmpl/*.sgml.bak, and then recreates the .sgml files according to the structure given in the file MODULE-sections.txt. Any new templates added, or new function parameters, are marked with FIXME so you can do a grep to see which parts need updating. Any templates which are no longer used (i.e. they are remove from MODULE-sections.txt) are placed in the file tmpl/MODULE-unused.txt. If they are included again later they are automatically copied back into position. If you are certain that these templates will never be used again you can delete them from MODULE-unused.txt. Any parameters to functions which are no longer used are separated from the rest of the parameters with the line <!-- # Unused Parameters # -->. It may be that the parameter name has just been changed, in which case you can copy the description to the parameter with the new name. You can delete the unused parameter descriptions when no longer needed. EXAMPLE
See /usr/share/doc/gtk-doc-tools/examples, for a makefile.am and a configure.in example file. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Marillat marillat@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). gtkdoc-mktmpl(1)
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