On 26 December 2016 at 07:47, bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ls /cloud_nfs/*PID.dat > > /cloud_nfs/1.2.3.4_PID.dat > /cloud_nfs/100.2.3.4_PID.dat > > > find . -regex '*\./*(\d+.\d+)*' ----not working.. ive seen multiple > examples.. so i'm doing something wrong... > > i've cd'd to the dir in question to run the test find... > cd to the dir, then: find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex "\./[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+.*" '-regextype posix-egrep' or '-regextype posix-extended' should work. Note that neither of them understand \d, to match a digit you'd have to use '[0-9]' or '[[:digit:]]'. A couple of points: 1. '*' alone (like you put at the beginning of your regexp above) won't work, because, IIUC, it's a quantifier: * matches zero or more occurrences of the regexp before it ? matches zero or one occurrences of the regexp before it + matches one or more occurrences of the regexp before it 2. -regex doesn't match on the file name only but rather on the whole path so after you cd you have to put '\./' at the beginning of the regexp, because the output has ./ before every file: $ find . . ./1.2.3.4_PID.dat ./100.2.3.4_PID.dat -- Ahmad Samir _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
