From: bruce bedouglas@earthlink.net

goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces 1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog 2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog i'm trying to figure out how i can do a complete list of all files with *foo*dog so i get the files with spaces and underlines... i thought simply doing somehting like ls '*foo_*.dog' and surrounding the filename with single quotes would work.. but it doesn't. thoughts/pointers/etc...

If you quote, it disables the completion...

$ echo *foo_*.dog 2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog

$ echo '*foo_*.dog' *foo_*.dog

JD

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM, bruce bedouglas@earthlink.net wrote:

hey...

here's one i can't see..

goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces

1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog 2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog

i'm trying to figure out how i can do a complete list of all files with *foo*dog

so i get the files with spaces and underlines...

i thought simply doing somehting like

ls '*foo_*.dog' and surrounding the filename with single quotes would work.. but it doesn't.

thoughts/pointers/etc...

thanks

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Edited for brevity On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:08:07AM -0800, bruce wrote:

goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces 1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog 2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog

...how i can do a complete list of all files with > *foo*dog so i get the files with spaces and underlines... i thought simply doing somehting like

ls '*foo_*.dog' and surrounding the filename with single quotes would work.. but it doesn't.

Its not exactly clear what you wanted.

for a given dir ls *foo*dog* gets them all.

if you wanted to get only those with _ or spaces then ls -1 | egrep '[ _]' works

for a tree of dirs: find . -name "*foo*dog" gets them all

if you wanted to get only those with _ or spaces then find . -name "*foo*dog" | egrep '[ _]' works

Jeff Kinz