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# 1  
Old 03-26-2009
Find problems
Hey,

I was hoping for some help, my point was to search for all "core" files with only digits in the extension

Eg:
1) core.153498 < He should find it
2) core.1 < He should find it
3) core.919jasj < shouldn't find it
4) core.abdijs < shouldn't find it

Code:
find . -name 'core.[0-9]*' -printf "%s \t %p \n" -type f

What am I doing wrong here?
He finds the first 3 examples and I just want it to find the first 2..


Thanks for your time,
Bruno
# 2  
Old 03-26-2009
The only way I could see to get what you want is by using to separate find lines as below:

Code:
find . -name 'core.[0-9]' -printf "%s \t %p \n" -type f
find . -name 'core.[0-9]*[0-9]' -printf "%s \t %p \n" -type f

A scripting guru will no doubt come up with a one liner...
# 3  
Old 03-26-2009
Bug
this will help youSmilie
Code:
find . -type f -name "core.*" -ls -long|awk -F"\/" 'split($NF,A,".")A[2] !~ /[aA-zZ]/{print $NF}'

# 4  
Old 03-26-2009
Code:
$ ls core.*
core.1        core.153498   core.919jasj  core.abdijs
$ find . -name 'core.[0-9]*' -type f -print|grep "core\.[0-9]*$"
./core.153498
./core.1

# 5  
Old 03-26-2009
You can change find's matching rules from glob to regular expression or if you prefer awk "-regextype posix-awk"
Code:
find . -regextype posix-egrep -name 'core.[0-9]*$' -printf "%s \t %p \n" -type f

# 6  
Old 03-26-2009
Code:
ls | egrep "core\.[0-9]+$"

# 7  
Old 03-27-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by summer_cherry
Code:
ls | egrep "core\.[0-9]+$"

That assumes all the files are in the same top level directory. But that gives this idea:

Code:
$ find . -name "core.*" -print
./abc/core.200
./abc/core.12xyz
./core.153498
./core.1
./core.919jasj
./core.abdijs
$ ls -R | egrep "core\.[0-9]+$"
core.1
core.153498
core.200

Assuming we don't have any directories startig with "core." otherwise we will have to add some more parts in the pipeline.
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