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Old 10-07-2010
files and Regular expressions
Legends,

Please help me out.
I have the following two files. And i want to list all of them using a regular expression. How do i do that?

abc000
abc000.gz

Now if i use ls -ltr abc000[.gz]
it doesn't work.

Please help.
# 2  
Old 10-07-2010
"ls" doesn't use regular expressions but filename generation/expansion.

If you are using ksh93 (ksh88 maybe), this would match both of these files and no other:

Code:
ls -ltr abc000*(.gz)

The same command will work with bash when this option is set first:
Code:
shopt -s extglob

With most other shells, the simpler
Code:
ls -ltr abc000*

will pick both of these files but potentially others too.
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# 3  
Old 10-07-2010
ls -ltr abc000*
# 4  
Old 10-07-2010
Thanks jlliagre,

But do we have another option to run in bash. because it is pre defined script and shopt -s extglob is not permitted and neither i can edit the script.
# 5  
Old 10-07-2010
If you can't edit the script, what are you asking for exactly ??
# 6  
Old 10-07-2010
There is a perl script already existing (say abc.perl) and the file name is passed as an argument.

/tmp/abc.pl /tmp/abc000*(.gz)

This is giving "unexpected token" error.

Now, how do i pass the argument in(bash) so that it taken the expression.?
# 7  
Old 10-07-2010
Code:
shopt -s extglob
/tmp/abc.pl /tmp/abc000*(.gz)

 
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