Thanks Ahmad Mind totally blew by the regextype attribute... simple works as expected.. 'ppreciate it.. On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
