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Old 01-25-2006
Null metacharacter?
Ok, here's what I'm trying to do:

I'm trying to formulate an <expression> that will match any of the following:

*.jpeg
*.jpg
*.JPEG
*.JPG

for a 'find <directory> -name <expression> ' command. I'd like to do *.[jJ][pP][eE<null>][gG], but don't know what the null character is, or even if it exists. Any thoughts on how to implement this? Thanks.
# 2  
Old 01-25-2006
how about
find . -name "*.[jJ][pP]*[gG]"
# 3  
Old 01-25-2006
Sure, I thought about that, but that would match *.jpig, *.jpog, *.jpanythingyouwantg, etc. I'm looking for a more exact expression. Obviously your suggestion would work 99.999999% of the time though. I think an even better one would be *.[jJ][pP]?[gG] since ? restricts the wildcard to a single character, but still not quite what I'm looking for.
# 4  
Old 01-25-2006
I'm not sure why you think you need this, ASCII NUL is the end of a string. The dirent struct member d_name is a char *. So it will be interpreted as ending with the character before the NUL.

the null character is
Code:
\000

# 5  
Old 01-25-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by kidcharles
I'm looking for a more exact expression.
find <directory> -name *.jpeg -o -name *.jpg -o -name *.JPEG -o *.JPG
# 6  
Old 01-26-2006
try : (space)
Code:
\b

# 7  
Old 01-27-2006
There is no null character in file pattern-matching
Code:
find <directory> -name '*.[jJ][pP][gG]' -o -name '*.[jJ][pP][eE][gG]'

Jean-Pierre
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