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Old 05-08-2013
To search for files of paticular file mask.
how to find files of particular mask from a folder using shell script.
for example if i have to find whether files having file mask like FILE%N%.csv
ie files like FILE123.csv or files like FILE56.csv
are present in the following folder or not.
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# 2  
Old 05-08-2013
Take a look at the following:
Code:
$ ls
sample.txt  sample1.txt  sample10.txt  sample2.txt  sample3.txt  sample30.txt  sample31.txt  sample32.txt  sample4.txt

$ ls sample[0-9]*.txt
sample1.txt  sample10.txt  sample2.txt  sample3.txt  sample30.txt  sample31.txt  sample32.txt  sample4.txt

# 3  
Old 05-08-2013
Read up about glob and file globbing.
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