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# 8  
Old 11-21-2014
Code:
30 10 * * * /usr/bin/find /wsbj/logs/mgr/webServiceLogs -type f \( \( -name '[a-Z]*' \) -a \( -mtime +30 \) \) > /home/mgr/wsl_find2.out

Code:
30 10 * * * /usr/bin/find /wsbj/logs/mgr/webServiceLogs -type f -a \( \( -name '[a-Z]*' \) -a \( -mtime +30 \) \) > /home/mgr/wsl_find2.out

Nope and nope...

EDIT: cron will use /bin/sh, as far as I know - which is a link to /bin/bash.

---------- Post updated at 10:43 ---------- Previous update was at 10:31 ----------

Using a shell-script wrapper doesn't help either.

Since it's quoted, the shell shouldn't be expanding it anyway. Puzzling...
# 9  
Old 11-21-2014
Try [A-Za-z]*
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# 10  
Old 11-21-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Try [A-Za-z]*
That works!

WHY does it work? Smilie
# 11  
Old 11-21-2014
Ranges in "bracket expressions" in regexes need to be defined using the lower bound first, then the upper. Upper case characters have lower ASCII values than have lower cases, so your range above was illegal. On top, all this is locale dependent, so I was mislead by my locale as well when proposing [A-Za-z]. In principle, with LC_ALL=C, [A-z] should also work. But will include a few punctuation chars!
Code:
echo {W..c} | tr " " "\n" | LC_ALL=C grep "[a-Z]"      # your "range"
grep: Invalid range end

echo {W..c} | tr " " "\n" | grep "[a-Z]"               # works in my locale
W
X
Y
Z
a
b
c

echo {W..c} | tr " " "\n" | LC_ALL=C grep "[A-z]"     # works in C locale
W
X
Y
Z
[
]
^
_
`
a
b
c


Last edited by RudiC; 11-21-2014 at 09:51 AM.. Reason: put in the "ASCII values"
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# 12  
Old 11-21-2014
It's a glob rather than a regex, but I think you are correct - fnmatch still uses LC_COLLATE, as far as I can tell.

I can't check right now, but I presume it's being changed from default in that user's interactive shell.
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