07-13-2012
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Originally Posted by
yifangt
I must have missed something with the regex for ls?
You have missed something indeed: shell regexps (aka "globs") and regexps are NOT the same.
See the man page of your shell for a detailed list of file globs, but if they aren't sufficient for your purpose you will have to do like you dike already: "ls | grep <some_regexp>" or something similar (awk, sed, ... all use the same regexps).
I hope this helps.
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re_comp
RE_COMP(3) Linux Programmer's Manual RE_COMP(3)
NAME
re_comp, re_exec - BSD regex functions
SYNOPSIS
#define _REGEX_RE_COMP
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <regex.h>
char *re_comp(char *regex);
int re_exec(char *string);
DESCRIPTION
re_comp() is used to compile the null-terminated regular expression pointed to by regex. The compiled pattern occupies a static area, the
pattern buffer, which is overwritten by subsequent use of re_comp(). If regex is NULL, no operation is performed and the pattern buffer's
contents are not altered.
re_exec() is used to assess whether the null-terminated string pointed to by string matches the previously compiled regex.
RETURN VALUE
re_comp() returns NULL on successful compilation of regex otherwise it returns a pointer to an appropriate error message.
re_exec() returns 1 for a successful match, zero for failure.
ATTRIBUTES
Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
The re_comp() and re_exec() functions are not thread-safe.
CONFORMING TO
4.3BSD.
NOTES
These functions are obsolete; the functions documented in regcomp(3) should be used instead.
SEE ALSO
regcomp(3), regex(7), GNU regex manual
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
GNU
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