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jamonathin

Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:28 am


Unix Filenames help

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Hey all,

I need to find a count all 4 letter files that start with a, s, r, t  in a user-specified directory.

I can't for the life of me figure this out or find bits of help on it.  What i have so far only lists the t's (from the user-specified /bin for now), but the problem is, it also includes  crap like "panel-test-applets" and  "test-moniker" in the count.

This is all i've been able to come up with, im not shure on how to also search for the s, r and a with that
ls -1 /bin | grep -w 't...' | wc -l


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Mazer

Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:30 pm


RE:Unix Filenames help

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Can't you use '?' as a wildcard for just a single character?


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jamonathin

Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:48 pm


Re: Unix Filenames help

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Thats what i thought at first, because thats what you can do with many other commands, but it doesn't work, and in this case, the ' . ' substitutes for the ' ? ' (took me a while to find that out).  but i could probabily be wrong, using the wrong syntax


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OneOffDriveByPoster

Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:11 am


Re: Unix Filenames help

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maybels -1 /bin/


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jamonathin

Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:08 pm


Re: Unix Filenames help

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That works perfectly, thanks a million man - and it's quite simple to understand.

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