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# 1  
Old 04-10-2014
Help with ls, grep commands
Oracle Linux 6.4/Bash shell

I have six files as shown below. Using ls/grep (or anything) , I need to list all files which start with the pattern
Code:
stomper

but not the ones
which ends with 1.

Code:
$ touch stompera
$ touch stomperb
$ touch stomperc
$ touch stompera1
$ touch stomperb1
$ touch stomperc1
$

$
$ ls -l stomper*
-rw-r--r-- 1 stack clsapp 0 Apr 11 09:29 stompera
-rw-r--r-- 1 stack clsapp 0 Apr 11 09:29 stompera1
-rw-r--r-- 1 stack clsapp 0 Apr 11 09:29 stomperb
-rw-r--r-- 1 stack clsapp 0 Apr 11 09:29 stomperb1
-rw-r--r-- 1 stack clsapp 0 Apr 11 09:29 stomperc
-rw-r--r-- 1 stack clsapp 0 Apr 11 09:29 stomperc1

### This is what I've tried. It isn't working
$ ls -l stomper* | grep -v 1
$

$ ls -l stomper* | grep stomper | grep -v 1
$

Expected output:

Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 stack clsapp 0 Apr 11 09:29 stompera
-rw-r--r-- 1 stack clsapp 0 Apr 11 09:29 stomperb
-rw-r--r-- 1 stack clsapp 0 Apr 11 09:29 stomperc

# 2  
Old 04-10-2014
try:

Code:
 ls -l stomper* | grep -v '1$'

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# 3  
Old 04-10-2014
Thank you Jim
# 4  
Old 04-11-2014
If you know that there is at least one matching file, you could also try:
Code:
ls -l stomper*[[:lower:]]

if you're interested in files starting with stomper and ending with a lower case alphabetic character:
Code:
ls -l stomper*[a-c]

if you want filenames starting with stomper and ending with a, b, or c, or:
Code:
ls -l stomper*[!1]

if you want filenames starting with stomper and ending with anything other than 1.
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
kraljic
# 5  
Old 04-12-2014
Thank you Don. Thanks everyone

One more thing.
I am a beginner in regular expression stuff. I tried to use ^ character to list the file names starting with 1.
It doesn't seem to work. Following is what I've tried

Code:
touch stompera
touch stomperb
touch stomperc
touch 1stompera
touch 1stomperb
touch 1stomperc

$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:15 1stompera
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:15 1stomperb
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:15 1stomperc
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:14 stompera
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:14 stomperb
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:14 stomperc

$ ls -l | grep '1^'
$
$ ls -l | grep '^1'
$

# 6  
Old 04-12-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by kraljic
Thank you Don. Thanks everyone

One more thing.
I am a beginner in regular expression stuff. I tried to use ^ character to list the file names starting with 1.
It doesn't seem to work. Following is what I've tried

Code:
touch stompera
touch stomperb
touch stomperc
touch 1stompera
touch 1stomperb
touch 1stomperc

$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:15 1stompera
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:15 1stomperb
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:15 1stomperc
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:14 stompera
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:14 stomperb
-rw-r--r-- 1 strp nhuy 0 Apr 12 22:14 stomperc

$ ls -l | grep '1^'
$
$ ls -l | grep '^1'
$

Something like this?
Code:
ls -l 1*

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kraljic
# 7  
Old 04-12-2014
ls -l prints the filename last, and it prints permissions first. That is why grep '^1' does not work, because none of the lines start with 1, they start with -
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