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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl code to search for filenames that contain special characters Post 96216 by mahendramahendr on Wednesday 18th of January 2006 02:49:55 PM
Old 01-18-2006
see whether this helps..

$ ls -lrt
total 56
drwxrwx--- 3 xxxx xxxxxx 4096 Jan 6 01:05 lib
-rw-rw---- 1 xxxx xxxxxx 5 Jan 16 18:52 tmp2
-rw-rw---- 1 xxxx xxxxxx 1417 Jan 17 18:29 logfile
-rw-rw---- 1 xxxx xxxxxx 9 Jan 18 13:40 tab_del.dat
-rwxrwx--x 1 xxxx xxxxxx 105 Jan 18 17:59 tmp1.sh
-rw-rw---- 1 xxxx xxxxxx 109 Jan 18 18:11 datafile
-rw-rw---- 1 xxxx xxxxxx 129 Jan 18 18:25 datafile1
-rw-rw---- 1 xxxx xxxxxx 0 Jan 18 19:01 mah*ab
-rw-rw---- 1 xxxx xxxxxx 0 Jan 18 19:33 amh\hai
-rwxrwx--x 1 xxxx xxxxxx 148 Jan 18 19:36 tmp1.pl
-rwxrwx--- 1 xxxx xxxxxx 195 Jan 18 19:44 tmp2.pl

This is actual command :

$ find . -name "*" -print | sed 's/\\/\\\\/g' | tmp2.pl | sed 's/\\\\/\\/g'
Patter found in ./mah*ab

Patter found in ./amh\hai


here is the tmp2.pl code :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

while( $line=<STDIN> )
{
my $vl = qx(basename $line);

if ( $vl =~ /\*|\<|\>|\?|\||:|\\|\// )
{
print "Patter found in $line\n";
}
}

the sed commands before and after tmp2.pl is needed to handle "\" character, if you are sure that it won't be there, then you can take out the sed command on both the places...

but i don't think "/" can be found in the unix file name because this is used for folders...
Last edited by mahendramahendr; 01-18-2006 at 03:55 PM..
 

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NAME

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