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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Assigning matched pattern within filename to variable Post 302899229 by Makarand Dodmis on Monday 28th of April 2014 06:08:30 AM
Old 04-28-2014
try
Code:
ls -ltr | awk '{print $9}' | grep [[0-9]]*.[[0-9]]* | while read file
do
echo $file
#Do whatever you want with these files
done

 

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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

fnmatch.h

fnmatch.h(3HEAD)                                                      Headers                                                     fnmatch.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       fnmatch.h, fnmatch - filename-matching types

SYNOPSIS

       #include <fnmatch.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The <fnmatch.h> header defines the following constants:

       FNM_NOMATCH     The string does not match the specified pattern.

       FNM_PATHNAME    Slash in string only matches slash in pattern.

       FNM_PERIOD      Leading period in string must be exactly matched by period in pattern.

       FNM_NOESCAPE    Disable backslash escaping.

       FNM_NOSYS       Reserved.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Standard                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       fnmatch(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          10 Sep 2004                                                   fnmatch.h(3HEAD)
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