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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grep -v (inverse matching) Post 302834673 by j_alicea on Friday 19th of July 2013 01:28:50 PM
Old 07-19-2013
Question Grep -v (inverse matching)
I am totally unexperienced in writing scripts of any kind.
I am working on Mac OS X and would like to run a shell script to find files in a directory that do not conform to a specific naming convention and print to a text file in the same directory.

For example, I have a folder called ScriptTest.
In this folder there are 6 jpg images that must all follow this naming convention:
6 digits(0-9), an underscore, 3 digits(0-9), an underscore, 1 digit(1-4) (ex. 1234567_123_1).
I need to output the names of the files that do not conform to this naming convention, to a text file in the same directory.

I've searched many different forums, but all of the samples I find, either don't produce the results I need, or fail altogether.
Most have used a combination of find or ls used in conjunction with grep and xargs. I still have yet to get one to work...

I do like to research and try to figure things out on my own, but I'm at a dead end here. Any help, would be greatly appreciated!
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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