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Using egrep doesn't change anything except the need for a backslash with the braces.

(And egrep is just an alternate way to put grep -E.)

Edit:
Oh, I forgot about that thing! Thanks. Problem solved. ^_^

Well, we didn't adjust the grep pattern for the / leading character, so it still matches any suffix. Sometimes find output might not have / before entry name, but you can control that!

Okay, here's another problem I bumped into before that just came up. Here's my alias (with tsch):

Code:

alias a "`find | egrep 'assign[0-9]{1,2}$'`"

But when I try that either in the command line or the .cshrc file, it complains about an illegal variable name. So I removed the quotes. It works in the command line nicely, but I would have to keep typing it in every time I log in. If I put it in the .chsrc file, it searches everything from my home directory (naturally). Is there a way to limit it to this folder? Or fix why that $ problem occurs?

For further information about the $, this is what happens (the extra backslash):

Code:

alias a "`find | egrep 'assign[0-9]{1,2}$\'`"

Edit:
Should I just post this in a new topic?

Code:

find . -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*[0-9]{1,2}'

But, I don't know why it is failing if I give the string "assign" in place of ".*"

Hi royalibrahim,

Maybe if you try with:

Code:

find . -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*assign[0-9]{1,2}'

Regards

Doing that doesn't change my problem of using it as an alias, though. If I put it in my .cshrc file (using the ` quotes to use them as a command line argument so I can run them), it looks for everything in my home folder upon login instead of actually assigning the alias.

Wait, you're trying to assign to an alias? and in C-shell??

Can you show what, exactly you're doing? I think the problem has less to do with find than whatever syntax you're using to set your alias...