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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Regex for (a|b) in bash Post 302949409 by newbie2010 on Friday 10th of July 2015 11:22:41 AM
Old 07-10-2015
Regex for (a|b) in bash

I am trying to find files using the following by using simple bash script:

Code:
if [[ "$file" =~ (08|8)-[0-9][0-9]-2014 ]]; then echo "yes";fi

What I need to find are any files with date 08-**-2014 so August 2014 any files.

I can use
Code:
if [[ "$file" =~ 08-[0-9][0-9]-2014 ]]; then echo "yes";fi

That works fine. How do I get files beginning with 08 or 8? I thought regex for this was (08|8) but apparently not.
 

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