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Old 05-14-2019
List all file whose 3rd char is digit
list all file whose 3rd char is digit (or Nth position is digit)

what will be the required command?
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Old 05-14-2019
Code:
ls ??[0-9]*

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Old 05-14-2019
With an ERE (egrep or grep -E)
Code:
ls | egrep '^.{2}[0-9]'

^ beginning of line
.{2} a character 2 times
[0-9] a character in the range 0-9

Within " " the shell substitutes $var or ${var} by its value, before it hands it to the egrep
Code:
num=2
ls | egrep "^.{$num}[0-9]"

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Old 05-14-2019
Slightly different approach:

Code:
echo ??[0-9]* | tr " " "\n"

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Code:
compgen -f -X '!??[0-9]*'

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Old 05-15-2019
The simple "arguments to lines" command is printf
Code:
printf "%s\n" ??[0-9]*

But commands can overflow with "too many arguments".
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