Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All,

I have a list of files as below
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Code:

FORM_PTIR_9484_ANFDOP_20150716_00263059.DAT
FORM_PTIR_9484_TIFDOP_20150716_00263059.DAT
FORM_PTIR_9484_EXFDOP_20150716_00263059.DAT
FORM_PTIR_9484_ANFDEX_20150716_00263059.DAT
FORM_PTIR_9484_ANFDCA_20150716_00263059.DAT

and so on....
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My previous requirement was for files to be picked up were AN??OP
So i used the wildcard like ????_????_????_AN??OP_*


But now, I have to pick files where the middle thing AN?? remains but last part <>EX
so, in short I can pick up files AN??OP and AN??CA but not AN
??EX

Can you please help ?

Moderator's Comments:

edit by bakunin: in fact i can and did help - i placed CODE- and ICODE-tags where they belonged to. In turn i just ask you to do that yourself from now on. Thank you.

Try

Code:

ls *AN??[^E][^X]* *AN??E[^X]* *AN??[^E]X*

Hello Friends,

I appreciate your help But lets say, I have the given set of files (listed above)
if these 3 positions are considered as aa, bb, cc then
say aa=AN
bb= any
cc <> EX

I have to consider only those files which have aa=AN, bb= any and CC <> EX.

This was first requirement

Now second requirement would be where I need to list out all those files which do not satisfy the criteria ....I have to move them to other folder. So, can you help me ?

Moderator's Comments:

edit by bakunin: doubled post removed

Why don't you move the files found to a temp directory, move the rest to your other folder, and move back from the temp?

Moderator's Comments:

Dear rac, PLEASE: use CODE-tags to let code(-parts) and file content stand out from your text. It helps others to understand your problem better. Furthermore, whatever your problem is, always provide three things: 1. an accurate problem description (this you did) 2. an accurate description of your system. "UNIX" is an OS with many, many flavours and running on a lot of (quite disparate) hardware. Your system might be quite different from mine in obvious or rather subtle ways. To help you better it helps to know your system because the one special quirk my system doesn't have yours might. 3. a description of what you have tried already and how it failed it simply helps to find out what went wrong when one sees an error message like "file not found" or "disk full" or whatever. You may not have noticed it or not understood its importance (there are less obvious messages as my examples) but others may understand and others may notice. Please keep that in mind and we will get along much better than now.

bakunin