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Old 03-08-2013
Search a file with specified pattern

May I know how to search for a file whose name is embedded with 3007 but it shouldn't begin or end with 3007. For ex. : 3008ab3007cd1007.
# 2  
Old 03-08-2013
ls ?*3007?*
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Old 03-09-2013
vgersh99 it w'd select all files having 3007 embedded anywhere.
# 4  
Old 03-09-2013
In recent bashes you can switch on extended pattern matching by $ shopt -s extglob This then would allow you to unselect files starting/ending with 3007, grepping the ones with 3007 in the middle:
Code:
ls !(3007*|*3007) | grep ..*3007..*
3008ab3007cd1007

Code:
$ ls *3007*
3007ab3007cd1007  3008ab3007cd1007  3008ab3007cd3007

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Old 03-10-2013
Rudic, my bash isn't supporting this. My Kernel version is 2.6
when I ran shopt it showed that extglob is on.
So, any other go!!
Also is there any means of downloading this feature from net and installing!
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Old 03-10-2013
I'd be very surprised that your bash should have the extglob option but not the only functions ( extended pattern matching operators) to use it.
# 7  
Old 03-13-2013
Rudic Please find the attachment from which I concluded that those features are not supported.
See if I have missed something to check.
Search a file with specified pattern-extglobpng
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